If an ad gets banned, people rush to its defense and call out the big bad government for being the fun police nanny state. It gets shared on many sites on the internet and gets a lot of coverage, precisely because it got banned for something or another. If it never got banned, it would go over exactly like any other advertisement: Just something to ignore while you wait for your TV programme to resume.
That explains a lot. It actually looks more faithful to the original than the new 33 Stradale concept from Alfa Romeo.
But it might be somewhat easier to pull together a clean lap in a well balanced car with generally more grip than power, compared to something that wants to blow its tires out through past 4th gear and can carry way more speed on the straights making braking more tricky and critical. There’s also the matter of confidence in the car, which could be worth many seconds alone on a track as long and treacherous as the Ring.
Just go with the speed of traffic, or slightly faster if you’re in the left lane and passing people. Speeding up significantly when there’s nobody ahead just to have to slow down againg later is just risking getting a ticket without actually getting you where you need to go much sooner. Don’t flash your lights or tailgate if someone’s ahead of you going “slow” (likely the actual speed limit). That just makes you look like an asshole and people won’t take kindly to that especially if they see a young teen driving like that.
Everyone talking about “left lane is for passing only” or “don’t ever pass on the right”, I’d just check your local laws about that to see if it’s actually mandated or just common courtesy. It’s legal in my province (Ontario) to pass on the right as long as it can be done safely, but you’re less visible and predictable when you pass on that side.
I don’t think there’s much you can do to make the rear end of a car all that pretty when it’s got a massive fan shoved up its butt. The T.33 looks far better without the fan, although it’s also shaped and styled more like something from the. 1960s than a rehash of the F1.
Let’s just say I like the auto start/stop in my Mini because it means it’s not rattling and vibrating while idling for a few seconds.
If an F1 car generates 5x its weight in downforce at 200 mph, then at half the speed it’s only making 1.25x its weight, as downforce increases with the square of speed. Which would mean that if it were upside down at 100 mph, there would only be a quarter of its weight in “up” force holding it on the track. For safety reasons and to avoid having to make the tunnel longer than necessary, they need something that can generate at least 2x the weight in downforce at the lowest speed possible.
The hillclimb car they are modifying can achieve that target downforce: weight ratio at only 80 mph, significantly better than an F1 car.