I don’t follow Formula One anymore but if there is something they do right are pit stops. From firs car stopping to second car leaving? 12.7 seconds.
By Miguel.GFZ
Semi-retired like Vito Corleone before the heart attack. Consiglieri to J.Kb and AWA. I lived in a Gun Control Paradise: It sucked and got people killed. I do believe that Freedom scares the political elites.
Wow.
How are those wheels held on to the hubs? It’s hard to see how you could loosen and tighten nuts, even if it’s just one central nut per wheel.
Pkoning,
They used to be street legal. I remember looking at a sort of sporty foreign car in the 1960’s with my Father. Karman Ghia? It had knock off spinner hubs. Thanks to Ralph Nader and his drive for nanny state safetyism they were outlawed in the 1960’s. They were “too dangerous to pedestrians.” Someone could be hit by the spinner that you hit to tighten/loosen the hub.
Of course Saint Ralph never even tried to outlaw split rims, which actually have a long list of maimed and dead victims.
My Father was almost one of the dead, when one of his workers was airing up a semitruck tire without putting it in a safety cage. The rim separated, with one half the rim bouncing off the thirty foot ceiling and breaking the concrete floor six feet in front of my Father. If it hit him, it would have caved in his head. That was ONE of the times split rims almost killed him, and I was there in the building 100 feet away. The damned things were industry standard for over fifty years until finally OSHA banned them.
The safety cages they used to contain the rims? They were often broken when they did their job. Three or four 2″ steel tubes breaking free of their welded steel base.
Used to be faster until Formula 1 banned helium driven air tools.
I’ve seen faster.