Ford hypercar testing

[blacksheep-1]

Exactly, but how bad-ass were planes like the F-100 & F-104? They just looked fast. They're all before my time, but I've always thought they were cool.

The front of a prototype gets about 12-25mm of travel and 30-50mm travel on the rear. Obviously, some tracks are smooth, they get the lower numbers. Sebring and Mosport get the bigger numbers. Most tracks will have 1 or 2 events where you get the big motion, but the vast majority of the time they spend in about an 8mm window range. Shaft speeds get to about 750mm/sec over big stuff, but they spend most of their time between 20mm/s one way or the other.

They locked the aero package, but Indycar has specifically left dampers open. If you get a chance to watch an Indycar soak up rough pavement or curbs, watch them. They are really impressive. Sportscar guys still have things to do, but there are a lot more rules than with the open-wheel guys.

A couple years ago, when the WEC guy were running Sebring, the day before they ran, there were some Indycar teams running the short course. Watching the WEC cars after the Indycars was an eye opener. The sporty cars looked bloody awful in comparison. The only reasonable prototype was the Caddy, but they still weren't good.

I was there for that, we must have walked right by each other, my favorite will always be the Jim Hall Chaparral 2G..automatic Trans and using the third pedal to operate the wing...for awhile at least. I loved that dtuff in third grade..lol

 

[TeeLew]

I was there for that, we must have walked right by each other,

I was building shocks all day in a shop about 5 miles away during the Indycar day. We knocked off early for lunch and went to the airport diner. On the way there we were able to watch from T10 and T13 for about 20 minutes each. It's damned impressive how well an Indycar can eat up the Sebring short course pavement.