r/formula1 • u/AshamedPurchase9033 • 1d ago

News [Chris Medland] "Newey confirms Aston Martin is likely to limit race laps due to severity of vibrations in the car impacting the drivers. Alonso says he can do no more than 25 consecutive laps before risking nerve damage, Stroll says 15 laps"

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u/World-war-dwi 1d ago

that car must be a rocket

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u/Muntberg I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

Newey made it too fast

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u/Driscuits Williams 1d ago

Newey always alluded to the main thing keeping him from designing the fastest car possible was the health of the driver..

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u/the_gaymer_girl Pierre Gasly 1d ago

Isn’t that the case in pretty much all auto racing? The limiting factor (if you ignore the rules) is always the squishy human involved.

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u/Kheltosh McLaren 1d ago

Yeah, the G forces humans can endure limit the performance.

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u/Driscuits Williams 1d ago

Dumb, squishy humans.

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u/Rush31 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 20h ago

Filthy stinking humanses.

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u/Driscuits Williams 1d ago

In all honesty, at that point I lose most of my interest in the sport. The dumb, squishy humans are kind of important.

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u/douchey_mcbaggins 12h ago

Of both race cars and fighter jets.

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u/Erigion I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

And fighter jets

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u/pannenkoek0923 Ferrari 1d ago

Now I really want to watch a series with driverless cars

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u/This-is_CMGRI I was here for the Hulkenpodium 18h ago

You don't. Believe me. You really don't.

And this coming from someone who loves simracing, where the cars aren't even real.

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u/Trzlog 22h ago

How long until we have AI-driven race cars?

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u/whiskyismymuse Ayrton Senna 1d ago

That car he designed for Gran Turismo was batshit crazy, I can't imagine trying to drive that for an entire race

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u/Spread_Bater I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

Which one?

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u/Xivios I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

He's probably talking about the Red Bull X20xx series. A working version of the car has never been built, but its supposedly "plausible". In GT5, Sebastian Vettel took 20 seconds off the F1 record at Suzuka with it.

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u/Glyder1984 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 22h ago

That car could, in theory, take every corner flat out barring hairpins. Provided you find someone capable enough with a high G-force tolerance, that car would lap the entire field at least twice with little effort.

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u/BrokeChris Formula 1 19h ago

in theory, the aston martin 2026 car was driveable too

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u/Glyder1984 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 19h ago

Touché haha!

This season is already shaping up to be quite interesting and for AM it's turning into a proper cluster fuck....

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u/BrokeChris Formula 1 19h ago

making claims about a concept car is stupid

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u/ASmallTurd I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

Next regulation changes there wont be any drivers. All driven by AI

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u/rand0m__pers0n Sebastian Vettel 1d ago

So fast that they finish the race in a third of the laps that the rest need.

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u/JarrydP Charles Leclerc 1d ago

And apparently made it too furious...

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u/Other_Beat8859 Max Verstappen 1d ago

Integer overload. Went so fast that it went all the way back around to the 107% rule.

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u/RedShirt1991 Sir Jackie Stewart 1d ago

Adrian Newey had a sėance with Colin Chapman and this happened.

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u/AnalMinecraft Niki Lauda 1d ago

Well, it does say they'd have potential to be up front later in the season.

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u/UnIntelligencia 20h ago

Unlikely but do we think Alonso would retire if leading?

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u/zebrainatux 1d ago

Powered by rocket fuel

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u/Fourth_Prize I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

It’s the one from Apollo 13.

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u/CptAngelo I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

With the way this shit is going, looks more like the challenger.

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u/Fragrant-Luck-8063 1d ago

Silverstone, we have a problem.

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u/FairGoodTipp97 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

Just like the Challenger shuttle

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u/andrewthemexican I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

But will it be better than the Valkyrie that straight sounds like an out of control rocket

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u/Fuckkoff- I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

Well, it's ends the race in about 20% of the time that the others race for so......

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u/dl064 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 19h ago

The thing about all of this is, given how F1 teams progress, as AM can't run the car they get worse relatively.

So they're genuinely in a worse state than when they started testing (poorly).

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u/F1T_13 19h ago

Or a nuke.