alless84 schrieb:
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> xSilvermanx Wrote:
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> > Anyone care to explain to me how the max.
> > 100kg/h-fuel-flow can be "exceded consistently"
> > when the race is more than one and a half hours
> > long and the teams have 100kg fuel to use
> during
> > the race? Seems like I'm missing something big
> > here, cause by exceeding the limit consistently
> > you'd have no fuel after one hour...?
> >
> > Was a neat race, when the safety car came out I
> > thought "is it McLaren 1998 or McLaren 1999 for
> > Rosberg?" Cause the restart 1999 wasn't a
> > comfortable one for McLaren, was funny to watch
> > though.
>
> Who sayed they drive with 100kg fuel on board? On
> few sites im reading this kinda questions now.
> This is not the what they take on board. This is
> fuel flow how much it can go. Fuel flow is limited
> once they go over 10.500rpm to 100 kg/h wich
> simple mean if the car would driver at or over
> 10.500 for an hour it can use only 100kg of fuel.
> They can have 200kg fuel onboard if they want
> actually.
That would be the rules, they may have 200kg fuel onboard at all times, however they may only use 100kg during the race (from start to finish).
Didn't describe it properly enough obviously. "You'd have no fuel after an hour" means you already used that 100kg max fuel that is allowed to be consumed.
Just searched the rules for it, Sporting Regulations 29.5: "No car is permitted to consume more than 100kg of fuel, from the time at which the signal to start the race is given to the time each car crosses the Line after the end-of-race signal has been given. Other than in cases of force majeure (accepted as such by the stewards of the meeting), any driver exceeding this limit will be excluded from the race results."
But what you've written makes things clearer, haven't heard of the 10.500rpm-mark, below would be less fuel-flow permitted. Still I think 10.500 rpm is used quite frequently, so exceeding 100 kg/h would mean exceeding the fuel-limit as well. Seeing that the F1-teams generally try to be at the limit the fuel-limit should not be too far under the fuel actually filled into the car.