• Porpoising and other health dangers

    From bra@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 26 09:13:08 2022
    Alarming to read about the deleterious effects of "porpoising", from George Russell. Although cars are integrally safer, do enhanced driver fittings and restraints tend to exacerbate sudden impacts?

    A driver in the W Series suffered a broken back after her car's right wheels skimmed some sausage kerbs at the Austin Tx track.

    I have watched in-car footage of a NASCAR-type crash where the driver was completely contained in her safety seat, and had the sense to take her hands off the wheel before impact with the wall. Her HANS device worked perfectly. Nonetheless she suffered
    a serious concussion that lasted weeks.

    Hamilton is fit as a fiddle, and Max is a superman --- but have cars and car performance advanced beyond safe human resilience?

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  • From geoff@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 27 11:13:01 2022
    On 27/04/2022 11:08 am, ~misfit~ wrote:
    On 27/04/2022 4:13 am, bra wrote:
    Alarming to read about the deleterious effects of "porpoising", from
    George Russell.

    Where?


    Keep up Shaun - keep up !

    Try google, or even the local rag ....

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/motorsport/128454059/george-russell-suffers-back-and-chest-pains-trying-to-control-his-f1-car

    geoff

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  • From ~misfit~@21:1/5 to bra on Wed Apr 27 11:08:14 2022
    On 27/04/2022 4:13 am, bra wrote:
    Alarming to read about the deleterious effects of "porpoising", from George Russell.

    Where?

    Although cars are integrally safer, do enhanced driver fittings and restraints tend to exacerbate sudden impacts?

    A driver in the W Series suffered a broken back after her car's right wheels skimmed some sausage kerbs at the Austin Tx track.

    I have watched in-car footage of a NASCAR-type crash where the driver was completely contained in her safety seat, and had the sense to take her hands off the wheel before impact with the wall. Her HANS device worked perfectly. Nonetheless she
    suffered a serious concussion that lasted weeks.

    Hamilton is fit as a fiddle, and Max is a superman --- but have cars and car performance advanced beyond safe human resilience?


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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to bra on Tue Apr 26 16:28:38 2022
    On 2022-04-26 9:13 a.m., bra wrote:
    Alarming to read about the deleterious effects of "porpoising", from George Russell. Although cars are integrally safer, do enhanced driver fittings and restraints tend to exacerbate sudden impacts?

    A driver in the W Series suffered a broken back after her car's right wheels skimmed some sausage kerbs at the Austin Tx track.

    I have watched in-car footage of a NASCAR-type crash where the driver was completely contained in her safety seat, and had the sense to take her hands off the wheel before impact with the wall. Her HANS device worked perfectly. Nonetheless she
    suffered a serious concussion that lasted weeks.

    Hamilton is fit as a fiddle, and Max is a superman --- but have cars and car performance advanced beyond safe human resilience?

    There was a terrific documentary along similar lines about fighter
    aircraft that basically concluded that for some time now, the most
    limiting factor on performance has been the human sitting in the cockpit.

    And I think that F1 is close to that limit; at least with the current
    problems of porpoising.

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  • From Bigbird@21:1/5 to bra on Wed Apr 27 12:50:31 2022
    bra wrote:

    Alarming to read about the deleterious effects of "porpoising", from
    George Russell. Although cars are integrally safer, do enhanced
    driver fittings and restraints tend to exacerbate sudden impacts?

    [snip]

    Hamilton is fit as a fiddle, and Max is a superman --- but have cars
    and car performance advanced beyond safe human resilience?

    Since when has anyone described porpoising as an advance in car
    performance.
    It is a unforeseen by product of design. It will get designed out.

    Personally I think the FIA should consider regulations to stop cars
    running with porpoising on safety grounds; or at least tell the teams
    they are considering it so they act even if it means reducing
    performance. F1 takes enough toll on the driver without this... and it
    just looks bloody stupid for what is considered the pinnacle of
    motorsport by many.

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  • From D Munz@21:1/5 to Alan on Wed Apr 27 05:52:48 2022
    On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 6:28:43 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
    On 2022-04-26 9:13 a.m., bra wrote:
    Alarming to read about the deleterious effects of "porpoising", from George Russell. Although cars are integrally safer, do enhanced driver fittings and restraints tend to exacerbate sudden impacts?

    A driver in the W Series suffered a broken back after her car's right wheels skimmed some sausage kerbs at the Austin Tx track.

    I have watched in-car footage of a NASCAR-type crash where the driver was completely contained in her safety seat, and had the sense to take her hands off the wheel before impact with the wall. Her HANS device worked perfectly. Nonetheless she
    suffered a serious concussion that lasted weeks.

    Hamilton is fit as a fiddle, and Max is a superman --- but have cars and car performance advanced beyond safe human resilience?
    There was a terrific documentary along similar lines about fighter
    aircraft that basically concluded that for some time now, the most
    limiting factor on performance has been the human sitting in the cockpit.

    And I think that F1 is close to that limit; at least with the current problems of porpoising.

    But proposing is not beneficial to performance.

    I've seen the video and reports around aircraft but those balance improved performance (acceleration, deceleration, turning etc.) against the human bodies ability to survive the environment.

    I suspect there will be a time where car performance improvements potentially surpass our (the driver's) physical capabilities (think g-forces on the neck) but these underfloor aerodynamic failures are not in that category.

    Or maybe they are. Does anyone have 2021/2022 same team, same track data to show the difference between last years peak and this years peak (with the proposing?) That would be an interesting side-by-side video showing a lap over the two versions of a car.

    FWIW
    DLM

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  • From Dan the Man@21:1/5 to Alan on Wed Apr 27 06:22:15 2022
    On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 7:28:43 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2022-04-26 9:13 a.m., bra wrote:
    Alarming to read about the deleterious effects of "porpoising", from George Russell. Although cars are integrally safer, do enhanced driver fittings and restraints tend to exacerbate sudden impacts?

    A driver in the W Series suffered a broken back after her car's right wheels skimmed some sausage kerbs at the Austin Tx track.

    I have watched in-car footage of a NASCAR-type crash where the driver was completely contained in her safety seat, and had the sense to take her hands off the wheel before impact with the wall. Her HANS device worked perfectly. Nonetheless she
    suffered a serious concussion that lasted weeks.

    Hamilton is fit as a fiddle, and Max is a superman --- but have cars and car performance advanced beyond safe human resilience?
    There was a terrific documentary along similar lines about fighter
    aircraft that basically concluded that for some time now, the most
    limiting factor on performance has been the human sitting in the cockpit.

    And I think that F1 is close to that limit; at least with the current problems of porpoising.
    I remember seeing a documentary on PBS a long time ago that shared a bit of on-board video from a US Air Force training flight; a fighter jet had just taken a VERY hard turn, resulting in the young trainee passing out in the cockpit. The flight would
    clearly have ended in disaster if not for the instructor sitting in the "back" seat who had remained conscious and was able to take control of the plane. Scary stuff.
    I'm not sure if that would ever happen in an F1 car; I'm not a doctor, though I play one on TV. 8-)

    Dan

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  • From News@21:1/5 to Bigbird on Wed Apr 27 10:41:49 2022
    On 4/27/2022 8:50 AM, Bigbird wrote:
    bra wrote:

    Alarming to read about the deleterious effects of "porpoising", from
    George Russell. Although cars are integrally safer, do enhanced
    driver fittings and restraints tend to exacerbate sudden impacts?

    [snip]

    Hamilton is fit as a fiddle, and Max is a superman --- but have cars
    and car performance advanced beyond safe human resilience?

    Since when has anyone described porpoising as an advance in car
    performance.
    It is a unforeseen by product of design. It will get designed out.

    Personally I think the FIA should consider regulations to stop cars
    running with porpoising on safety grounds; or at least tell the teams
    they are considering it so they act even if it means reducing
    performance. F1 takes enough toll on the driver without this... and it
    just looks bloody stupid for what is considered the pinnacle of
    motorsport by many.



    Several teams' CFD and chassis dynamics designs and remedies are a joke.

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  • From Slang@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 27 16:49:22 2022
    Il 27/04/2022 16:41, News ha scritto:


    Several teams' CFD and chassis dynamics designs and remedies are a joke.

    Air speed in wind tunnel is limited to 180 km/h.
    No sign of porpoising at those speeds.
    All is a joke...
    S

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Bigbird on Wed Apr 27 17:23:58 2022
    On 2022-04-27 5:50 a.m., Bigbird wrote:
    bra wrote:

    Alarming to read about the deleterious effects of "porpoising", from
    George Russell. Although cars are integrally safer, do enhanced
    driver fittings and restraints tend to exacerbate sudden impacts?

    [snip]

    Hamilton is fit as a fiddle, and Max is a superman --- but have cars
    and car performance advanced beyond safe human resilience?

    Since when has anyone described porpoising as an advance in car
    performance.
    It is a unforeseen by product of design. It will get designed out.

    And yet, at the moment the cars clearly go faster when they're set up to porpoise...

    ...so clearly, at the moment, it represents an advance in performance.

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to D Munz on Wed Apr 27 17:26:17 2022
    On 2022-04-27 5:52 a.m., D Munz wrote:
    On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 6:28:43 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
    On 2022-04-26 9:13 a.m., bra wrote:
    Alarming to read about the deleterious effects of "porpoising",
    from George Russell. Although cars are integrally safer, do
    enhanced driver fittings and restraints tend to exacerbate sudden
    impacts?

    A driver in the W Series suffered a broken back after her car's
    right wheels skimmed some sausage kerbs at the Austin Tx track.

    I have watched in-car footage of a NASCAR-type crash where the
    driver was completely contained in her safety seat, and had the
    sense to take her hands off the wheel before impact with the
    wall. Her HANS device worked perfectly. Nonetheless she suffered
    a serious concussion that lasted weeks.

    Hamilton is fit as a fiddle, and Max is a superman --- but have
    cars and car performance advanced beyond safe human resilience?
    There was a terrific documentary along similar lines about fighter
    aircraft that basically concluded that for some time now, the most
    limiting factor on performance has been the human sitting in the
    cockpit.

    And I think that F1 is close to that limit; at least with the
    current problems of porpoising.

    But proposing is not beneficial to performance.

    At the moment, it clearly is more beneficial to allow the cars to
    porpoise than not.


    I've seen the video and reports around aircraft but those balance
    improved performance (acceleration, deceleration, turning etc.)
    against the human bodies ability to survive the environment.

    I suspect there will be a time where car performance improvements
    potentially surpass our (the driver's) physical capabilities (think
    g-forces on the neck) but these underfloor aerodynamic failures are
    not in that category.

    No, they aren't.

    But there has still be an advance in performance that has led to this
    behaviour and it is taking a toll.


    Or maybe they are. Does anyone have 2021/2022 same team, same track
    data to show the difference between last years peak and this years
    peak (with the proposing?) That would be an interesting side-by-side
    video showing a lap over the two versions of a car.

    How does that change anything?


    FWIW DLM

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Dan the Man on Wed Apr 27 17:34:11 2022
    On 2022-04-27 6:22 a.m., Dan the Man wrote:
    On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 7:28:43 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
    On 2022-04-26 9:13 a.m., bra wrote:
    Alarming to read about the deleterious effects of "porpoising", from George Russell. Although cars are integrally safer, do enhanced driver fittings and restraints tend to exacerbate sudden impacts?

    A driver in the W Series suffered a broken back after her car's right wheels skimmed some sausage kerbs at the Austin Tx track.

    I have watched in-car footage of a NASCAR-type crash where the driver was completely contained in her safety seat, and had the sense to take her hands off the wheel before impact with the wall. Her HANS device worked perfectly. Nonetheless she
    suffered a serious concussion that lasted weeks.

    Hamilton is fit as a fiddle, and Max is a superman --- but have cars and car performance advanced beyond safe human resilience?
    There was a terrific documentary along similar lines about fighter
    aircraft that basically concluded that for some time now, the most
    limiting factor on performance has been the human sitting in the cockpit.

    And I think that F1 is close to that limit; at least with the current
    problems of porpoising.
    I remember seeing a documentary on PBS a long time ago that shared a bit of on-board video from a US Air Force training flight; a fighter jet had just taken a VERY hard turn, resulting in the young trainee passing out in the cockpit. The flight would
    clearly have ended in disaster if not for the instructor sitting in the "back" seat who had remained conscious and was able to take control of the plane. Scary stuff.
    I'm not sure if that would ever happen in an F1 car; I'm not a doctor, though I play one on TV. 8-)

    It would be extremely unlikely; essentially impossible.

    Those blackouts in fighter jets occur when the aircraft is pulling
    positive g's in the aircraft's up-down direction. When it does that,
    despite all that can be done with g-suits, a person sitting in the
    aircraft has the blood move from evenly distributed to most of it in his
    lower extremities and next to none in the brain.

    And while F1 cars can decelerate at over 5g (even as much as 6.6g, I've
    seen reported), they can't sustain that highest level for long at all,
    as the traction of the tires falls with the decrease in speed.

    The Blue Angels pilots regularly sustain 10g accelerations for 3-5
    seconds, so unless F1 cars get to completely ludicrous levels of
    downforce, they're never going to sustain enough g-forces for long
    enough for G-LOC (g-force induced loss of consciousness).

    :-)

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to News on Wed Apr 27 17:34:37 2022
    On 2022-04-27 7:41 a.m., News wrote:
    On 4/27/2022 8:50 AM, Bigbird wrote:
    bra wrote:

    Alarming to read about the deleterious effects of "porpoising", from
    George Russell. Although cars are integrally safer, do enhanced
    driver fittings and restraints tend to exacerbate sudden impacts?

    [snip]

    Hamilton is fit as a fiddle, and Max is a superman --- but have cars
    and car performance advanced beyond safe human resilience?

    Since when has anyone described porpoising as an advance in car
    performance.
    It is a unforeseen by product of design. It will get designed out.

    Personally I think the FIA should consider regulations to stop cars
    running with porpoising on safety grounds; or at least tell the teams
    they are considering it so they act even if it means reducing
    performance. F1 takes enough toll on the driver without this... and it
    just looks bloody stupid for what is considered the pinnacle of
    motorsport by many.



    Several teams' CFD and chassis dynamics designs and remedies are a joke.

    Says the guy not qualified to do any of it.

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  • From texas gate@21:1/5 to Alan on Thu Apr 28 05:17:47 2022
    On Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 6:26:22 PM UTC-6, Alan wrote:

    clearly

    word of the day, simpleton?

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  • From texas gate@21:1/5 to Alan on Thu Apr 28 05:16:18 2022
    On Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 6:24:02 PM UTC-6, Alan wrote:

    clearly

    clearly

    clearly you are a fucking idiot

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  • From texas gate@21:1/5 to Alan on Thu Apr 28 05:19:22 2022
    On Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 6:34:17 PM UTC-6, Alan wrote:

    It would be extremely unlikely; essentially impossible.

    lol

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  • From texas gate@21:1/5 to Alan on Thu Apr 28 05:20:48 2022
    On Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 6:34:41 PM UTC-6, Alan wrote:

    Says the guy not qualified to do any of it.

    fuck you, you fucking stupid trolling cocksucker

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