F1 car weirdness

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In the PAL version (F1 is HUGE in Europe) of the game there is only two F1 cars, but in the NTSC version (I don't think F1 is that huge in the US) there are several, 5...6...7... dunno exactly.

Does anybody else find this a bit strange ?
 
The US always gets' better stuff, cause we can do that ^_^. Like Soccer, America as a whole doesn't really care for soccer, but the rest of the world does, and yet our team does pretty well, sometimes.
 
Maybe less Europeans would believe a Williams, McLaren, Lotus was really an F086/M, an F087/S, and an F094/H, respectively.

Us Americans are easier to trick on the formula-car issue.
 
I didn't know WTF the numbers were for, and I still don't, and I don't care if I do or not, All I know is F090 F094/S F094/H F686 etc etc, are more than Polyphony 001
and Polyphony 002
 
Yet it is odd, especially when you consider the number of current F1 teams based in Europe. Which is ALL of them (except maybe BAR - not entirely sure where they ARE based though).

For NTSC F1-ers, a translation:
F = Formula 1 car.
First number = Number of cylinders (6 is 6, 0 is 10)
Next two numbers = Year (1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1994)
Letter = Driver (M = Mansell, S = Senna, H = Hill).
 
Originally posted by Famine
Yet it is odd, especially when you consider the number of current F1 teams based in Europe. Which is ALL of them (except maybe BAR - not entirely sure where they ARE based though).
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Exactly.
 
Well what I wonder is how come the F686, which is a 6 cyl 1986 car right? yeah it's turbo and has 888 hp. but the high 700HP f094 is SO much better, yet the F090 is quite a bit slower. And it's a 4 year gap in there, just like the 90 to the 94, and there's a HUGE difference from those 2, how come the drop in performance from 86 to 90?
 
Legislation.

Generally as the years progress, the aerodynamics and mechanical abilities of the cars get better and better and better. Then you have FIA legislation - turbos were banned, aerodynamics were limited, etc. etc. etc.

All legislation is designed to slow the cars down - for safety - but the teams work within the legislation. The current lap record for Monaco was set THIS YEAR by Kimi Raikonnen - and the cars now wear grooved tyres to reduce cornering speed!
 
Exactly.

The turbo was banned in 1989 (I think). As a result the cars dropped in power for the 1990 season. Then the teams worked within the new framework developing year-on-year improvements through to 1994.
 
I don't know yet, i'll come up with it's meaning soon, but as for now it's just a really fun word to say, don't you think? :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
It has officially become just as much fun to say as the other top 2 contenders which are "woo" and "hugbee's"
 
The FIA changed the amount of maximum boost pressure in turbocharged cars from "unlimited" in 1986, to 4.0 bar in '87, and a max of 2.5 bar in 1988.

Non-turbo cars only in '90, and technology made for faster cars by 1994.
 
I forgot who i'm quoting or trying to quote when I say
"Forced induction is the single most disruptive force to ever reach motorsports."
 
Originally posted by Driftster
The US always gets' better stuff, cause we can do that ^_^.
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Ok, well then I'll just go and play my GT Concept then.
 
Turbo engines were banned from the end of the 1988 season.

In '89, the cars (well, the McLaren Hondas in any event) were quicker in a lot of places because the naturally aspirated engines were much more responsive (i.e. no turbo lag) throughout the rev range, and consequently better to drive - where you were in the rev range at the exit of a corner was less critical.

By 1994 the engines had pretty much more than made up the power differences to those of the '88 turbos.
 
There isn't an 89 F1 car in GT3.

There's an F686/M, F687/S, F688/S, F090/S, F094/H and F094/S.
 
Originally posted by Famine
There isn't an 89 F1 car in GT3.

There's an F686/S, F687/S, F688/M, F090/S, F094/H and F094/S.
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Actually, it's F686/M and F668/S . . . just thought I would throw that out there.

Yeah, I know what you are saying about the US though, I think I'm one of the only people here that actually cares about Formula 1. If it weren't for it being the summer and me not doing anything, I wouldn't complain about the start times of the races . . . but being that I don't go to bed until 3 in the morning, it's kinda hard to wake up at 6:30 to see the races. Plus being on Speed doesn't really get a whole lot of national exporsure. The same really goes for WRC and somewhat ALMS. ALMS get the most national exporsure in the US by it being shown on CBS and NBC; while WRC and F1 are only shown on SPEED, which is slowly becoming NASCAR TV (anything along the lines of NASCAR type racing also) more than anything.
 
Originally posted by VashTheStampede
Actually, it's F686/M and F668/S . . . just thought I would throw that out there.
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:D Was Senna alive in 1968? :D
 
Originally posted by Famine
:D Was Senna alive in 1968? :D
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Oops . . . that was a typo. :lol: I meant F688/S . . . stupid keyboard . . . it messed that one up for me, I would never make such a stupid error.
 
He did well to get an F1 contract then. Makes Jenson Button look like a geriatric... :D
 

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