How on earth would a pit crew change the tires on an X1?

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Makes sense.
I just noticed that when you watch the video with the full scale model there are no joints or anything that would indicate any way to remove a side panel. Then again it's prolly just me being anal about little details. Here's the video anyways:

 
shoeface33
Also when you pit, the fuel is poured all over the spoiler
Also if the X1 is for losers then why did adrian newey design it and Vettle do all the simulator work for it?
Now i'm not a red bull fan at all, im a mclaren man through and through but I still wouldnt call either of them a looser really. There is a reason that any car designed by adrian newey is fast.....
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He designed the Williams FW16 and that car killed Ayrton Senna........
 
grog
This is only an opinion, not fact, the cause of his death is still unclear.
But that is one of the theories.
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Senna's death was caused by suspension failure. It could happen any time to anyone.
 
daan
It has everything to do with aerodynamics. A moving wheels churns up the air, so putting a cover on it smoothes it out and makes the car more efficient and slippy, but you lose time changing wheels. The Jaguars pretty much only ran with the covers on when they were at Le Mans. They weren't really worth the hassle anywhere else.

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Not just Jaguar. Another car which is constantly overlooked also had the wheels covered and its also in GT5.
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Back in GT4, I used to debate on which of those Nissan Race Cars I liked more, I didn't like the one with the wheel covers and I didn't like the flaps above the lights on the other model, :dunce:
 
In answer to the old Porsche. I remember a story about a very smooth F1 driver from the 40's/50's/60's ( I can't remember) that could race his formula 1 car for several races on the same tires when others were changing in the middle of a single race.

NASCAR and F1 races are won in the pits, but on the endurance races it's more of not wearing out the car.
 
Brock1Samson9
The same way they did it with the Group C Jag that's in the game. The panel is removable, which would add time yo a stop but presumably aero efficiency in yaw sees a significant improvement.
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This. And one of the group c datsuns
 
SmileyOr1
I remember a story about a very smooth F1 driver from the 40's/50's/60's ( I can't remember) that could race his formula 1 car for several races on the same tires when others were changing in the middle of a single race.
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You remember, or were told, wrong. Tyre technology, not just in F1, was so limited back in the 50's and 60's and the tyres were so hard and durable and that enabled most of the drivers to go through most of the season on the same tyres. No one made a planned pitstop for tyres until the 80's.

Up until then all tyre changes during a race were to replace a punctured or damaged tyre. The race that changed it all was when Prost got a puncture, he stopped and changed tyres, then was able to go much quicker during the 2nd part of the race, and so won. After that, folk realised that putting on new tyres during a race could get you to the end quicker than someone who was nursing an old set through the whole race.
 
SilverArrow
I can't believe that you would even consider it was Adrian's fault, then I saw your age...
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My age? How do you know? My PSN? That's not the year I was born, its just significant to me. Anyway, I didn't say it was his fault, I'm just saying the car wasn't that great before Imola anyway. They had to redesign some of it.....
 
They've designed it as a force-field, which manages not to repel the tyres, which themselves will take around the same time to invent as the force-field itself :crazy:
 

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