[Crossposting from SDF]
(Not-So-)Short thread on the ACAE CJ1000A, the supposed LEAP-analogous from China ✈️
Currently, the most dominant narrative on the CJ1000A vs the LEAP-1C that it has a worse TSFC. But is that *actually* the case *now*? Let's find out: 🧵↓
@dr_obbs@calvin_coolit 100% actuator. Compression is always more favourable for flow attachment which RBR's approach. Same reason why swan neck wings exist.
I’m sitting here wondering what I have watched for the past three days. Three times I visited Silverstone for edge of your seat pure performance racing and loved every minute of it. I’ve always wanted to make it out to SPA to see one of the greatest tracks on the calendar as well, but honestly after this weekend I don’t anticipate anything good there either.
Thank goodness for Hamilton and Verstappen with gigantic cajones attempting to give us some decent racing hanging it on the outside of corners multiple times. Only to have what little brilliance they could muster undone by yo-yo electrical energy racing giving up the spot again.
I mean poor Max gave it his all honestly only to be let down by the car again. Something stinky going on inside that technical team, and honestly…I can’t make excuses for them anymore.
And It’s no surprise to me that the RB22 was struggling at Silverstone. This car is so different than cars prior that thrived in the high speed corners and could gain on the straights with excellent aero efficiency.
The RB22 is good is the slower corners, but honestly it doesn’t matter on a track like this. This track, and SPA requires harvesting in the higher speed sections, and excellent deployment and harvesting efficiency. This is not the strength of the RB22, and until they can find a solution on the electrical side of this PU they will always struggle at tracks like this.
It’s a major issue with the ADUO that just reaffirms the fraudulent nature of this regulation set making the deciding measure the ICE. Outright performance is so dependent on electrical hybrid technology. To omit this from the ADUO tells me that the regulators didn’t fully understand what they created in the first place. Sure the ICE would be new, but the electrical hybrid potential for performance was CLEARLY misunderstood. Thus, they didn’t anticipate super clipping, even after warnings from multiple teams. And here we are.
Stuck with a regulation set that under utilizes driver skill and rewards teams with significant performance advantages with more performance gaining improvement opportunities. And with the release of the 2027 regulations it’s clear to me that a concerted effort has been made to reduce downforce for corner performance and create more artificial yo-yo straight line pass racing contingent on full or depleted batteries.
Sunday at the #BritishGP for me was some moments of driver brilliance overcome by electrical energy mismatches that just flipped these moments of brilliance over again. Not what I grew to love in the past three visits to the great British Grand Prix.
Unfortunately it’s becoming a regular occurrence on power limited tracks, and it’s what we have until someone pulls their head out of the sand and stops listening to the jingling of pence and pennies, and restores the brilliance of pure racing.
Max braked only slightly later on the crash lap (red) vs previous (blue). He actually arrived with less speed into the corner. That small braking difference isn't enough to explain the spin IMO. Need to check how the rear wing closed on video for both laps.
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