formula one tire trouble video..

wayne petty · April 25, 2010, 02:23:27 AM

back to the drawing boards guys...

http://www.guzer.com/videos/race-car-tire-trouble.php

i wonder if that race was here in so cal... might explain the massive pot hole...

39deluxe · April 25, 2010, 05:12:38 AM

How in the wide world of sports could that happen?

UGLY OLDS · April 25, 2010, 01:47:31 PM

" You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel......"

Bob...........

jaybee · April 25, 2010, 04:59:58 PM

BOTH tires at the same time, really? Wow!

sirstude · April 25, 2010, 06:13:06 PM

That was last weekend. Those F1 cars have some SERIOUS brakes on them. When he hit the brakes, it broke both the A arms on both sides. Carbon Fiber is neat, but it does have some drawbacks, steel would have bent, not break.

Doug

Crosley.In.AZ · April 25, 2010, 06:17:04 PM

Must be a * helpless feeling sitting there .. at speed , no control of the direction of the car.

39deluxe · April 26, 2010, 03:15:29 PM

Quote from: "Crosley"Must be a * helpless feeling sitting there .. at speed , no control of the direction of the car.

Like driving on ice. Oops, you wouldn't know about that.

Tom

Mac · April 26, 2010, 03:38:39 PM

Frantically and futilely feeding steering input just waiting for momentum to quit. 5 seconds must have felt like half an hour

wayne petty · April 26, 2010, 05:30:44 PM

you know... instead of steering.. i bet he was pushing the radio transmit button on the steering wheel... and cursing up a storm...

butch27 · April 29, 2010, 10:11:16 PM

Somebody is gonna' get hurt in one of them durn racing cars! LOL

WINGNUTZ · May 02, 2010, 03:49:19 PM

Nothing to do with the tires... looked like both of the super light weight wheels snapped at the hub.

Crafty · July 03, 2010, 06:22:12 AM

This was caused by suspension arm failure, when the load was increased due to braking it broke, this in turn caused the other side to break..

If you watch closely you'll see the whole hub assembly rips away from the arms.

wayne petty · July 03, 2010, 04:06:16 PM

i have been thinking about carbon fiber parts for years...

i wonder if they have changed their designs and added something inside the layers of carbon cloth that has some strength like post tensioning cables do to concrete castings.. but instead of putting the part in compression.. it keeps the attached parts from flying off if the carbon fiber breaks.. sort of an internal leash...

the vision in my head if you think back to the airplane that went down in new york where the vertical tail broke off after too much input by the pilot... the tail was attached by 4 or 6 mounting lugs... all carbon composite.. but with only layers of carbon fiber wrapped around the holes... no structural material ... so it all had the same strength...

my thought would be to wrap strands of a stronger non heat damaged material into the layers around the attachment points.. then it gets all laminated together.. so if it breaks... it still maintains its shape..

probably do it with welded loops of the material.. so it cannot just pull out like a thread...

loops would also be to slightly different areas... so it would spread the forces out...

but.. this is just my forward thinking.. from somebody who does not know what he is talking about..