Sometimes I am asked, what are the differences between Formula 1 and Champ Car chassis. But how many people really know what a Champ Car is? (I'm often asked to explain what they are)
Unfortunately, the majority of today's non-racing public can only know what "RASSCAR" (Nextel Cup) is ... So my simple answer is: Do you know the cars at the Indianapolis 500? These are "Indycar," which loosely resembles Champ Car.
Although technically speaking, the Indy 500 is the only area of the Indy Racing League, Champ Cars are not. This is due to the current state of open-wheel race was between two opposing sanctioning bodies in the Cart-IRL split in 1996, came back ...
The most notable visual difference between a Champ Car and IRL chassis, the rear bonnet. Turbo Champ Cars will not use an overhead airbox. IRL cars with a "Formula-1-esque" Airbox to RAM air into the engines buried in the induction of carbon-fiber casing ...
And yet this year, the brand new Panoz DP-01 Champ Car will be for a hybrid of the series former Lola B2K chassis and a current Formula-1-spec candidate with his new wing before the treatment. The new Panoz also use similar F1 steering wheel mounted paddle shift and a variety of new electronic engine management functions including the elimination of the ubiquitous "pop-off valve ...
One interesting twist on the topic of open wheel racing cars terminal velocity has been the announcement that the F1 BAR-Honda would attack the Bonneville Salt Flats in October 2006 in an effort to break 400kph ...
Further details were shone during last July, the Formula 1 qualifying at Silverstone. (Sat, 7/09/06), when the speed channel Bob Varsha some interesting comments in the 5-shipment.
Varsha noted that the BAR-Honda "jalopy" was expected to "Max out" in 250 + mph, a change in the Formula-1-chassis with front and rear wings away and use a parachute ...
This leads back to another question I am often asked: What is faster: "The chicken or the egg. The Coyote and the Roadrunner?" ERR, Formula 1, or "carZs hip?"
This leads naturally to a comparison of the competing machines. The 2005 BAR-Honda 007 chassis is a 3.0-liter normally aspirated V-10,
According to rumors, the production 955bhp@19.200 RPM's ... But in July 2005, BAR-Honda was the last place in the Constructors' Standings F1.
Meanwhile die'05 Champ Car, the Lola / Cosworth 2.65-liter turbo V-8 production was 750bhp @ 37 "reinforcement. Cosworth use of the" push-to-pass "technology allows riders 60 seconds of "Turbo Boost" an additional 50bhp, for a maximum power of 800bhp.
During the waning years factory backed Champ Car (CART) racing, engines were fast approaching 900bhp. And in 2000, Gil de Ferran captured Honda fifth consecutive CART drivers' championship, while a new world closed course speed record of 241.428 mph at California Speedway. (Fontana, CA: 2.5 miles Tri-oval)
Meanwhile, the F1 circus hit "Terminal Velocity" speeds of 221 + mph on the front right of Indianapolis, during the long blast directly using full throttle for 21 seconds ... (before the 2005 Michelin tire debacle! Fortunately at Portland GI Joe's Champ Car race ...)
This was before the Formula-1-reducing engine 3.0-liter normally aspirated V-10 is up to 2.4 liter V-8 is made by lopping two cylinders in an effort to reduce benefits, which threatens to over 1000 HP!
This was in the middle of the 1980s in the F1 turbo era, which had seen 1,100 + horsepower during qualifying from the small 1.5 liter inline 4's and V-6 twin-turbo engines. The spiraling increases horsepower to the FIA (Formula 1 of the sanctioning body) to the normally aspirated, with the introduction of 3.5 liters of displacement maximum in 1989 with a decline to 3.0 liters in 1990 ... (This engine formula in 1990 remained until 2005)
The monsters of all time were known as Am, the races from 1966-1974. This saw the development of the all-conquering German Panzer, also known as the Porsche 917/30, the housing 12 turbo engine was rumored to more than 1300 hp ...
But in the mid-90s direct descendant of the Porsche 917's: The 956 is followed by the dominant's 962 vs. Jaguar XJR's (Lemans prototypes) were both beams to 3.0 miles Mulsane just shy of 250mph. (246 + mph) This led to the addition of two chicanes added whittle that directly ...
Naturally top speed is simple when compared to the vehicle application ...
On Oct. 15, 1997 the British Thrust SSC was the first jet-powered "car" to the Speed of Sound! (Mach 1) The dual-engine land jet blasted a two-way average speed of 766.609 mph ...
And only if the ultimate speed limits of the end?
For example, the Lockheed SR-71 flies faster than a speeding bullet (3,000 km / h), while the XB-70 Valkerie broke all records with a maximum speed of Mach 5! (3,700 + mph)
That is ultimately faster: Formula-1-or Champ Cars? Unfortunately, this will never really be answered, as the two different forms of open-wheel cruise missiles at different engine formulas, rules packages, different tires, weights, fuel, gear ratios, etc. And the biggest limiting factor is the different aerodynamic rules enforced Formula 1-vs Champ Cars.
Also, the race is slightly different. During the two races on the traditional track circuits and the same "Point 'N Squirt" theory of racing. F1 drivers are better suited for final acceleration from corner to corner, while Champ Cars have been able to achieve higher speeds, while the banks continually circling approaches Oval Super Speedway in the late 1990s or today's exhibition runs the Indy 500 ...
But during 2006, the Champ Car World Series race at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villenuve, site of the Canadian Formula-1-race, the lap times were nearly 7 seconds slower then the F1 cars ... (Lap Time Comparison: 1:14.942 = F1 vs Champ Car = 1:21.856)
Tomas Rotelli is an aspiring writer Motorsport, together with an avid racing fan in the past two decades plus. Living in Seattle, WA I have a variety of different racing venues, especially the permanent road courses and temporary street circuits.
I have my trip in written form in the mid-1990s during a monthly Penning Ford Racing News Colum for WASAAC (Washington Shelby Automobile Club) for 6 years ...
I have the good fortune to attend a variety of vintage car races at the various venues, including: Monterey, Sonoma, Seattle and Portland. I also have fun at several Formula 1, Champ Cars (CART) and IMSA GTP & ALMS races in the last few years ...
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