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In Le Mans, what is that second Timer on the timer board?
They are the current temperature and windspeed - as you can see from this image:
Referring to your image, the 17 is referring to the current temperature in degrees Celsius, and the 03 is the wind ...
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Why did Force India get docked all constructors points?
Racing Point Force India count as a new team, that's why they start with no points. The points from old Sahara Force India went away with their exclusion.
When Sahara Force India's entry was ...
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Parc Ferme Rules
In short, each car is assigned a scrutineer for the exact purpose of enforcing parc ferme conditions. Per the 2018 sporting regulations:
Article 34.7 states:
One scrutineer will be allocated to ...
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How are race stewards selected in F1?
As described in Formula 1, Rules & Regulations, Officials:
There are seven officials
Five of the seven are nominated by FIA. These include:
the race director (currently Charlie Whiting)
a ...
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What is the valuation between different starting positions in auto racing?
I don't think you will ever find a definitive answer for this, as it varies so much from venue to venue and series to series, not to mention external factors (weather etc.) play just as big a role. ...
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Highest Formula One WDC ranking without a podium finish?
Two drivers have finished a season on rank 6 without a single podium finish throughout the respective season:
Robert Kubica in 2007, highest finish position was 4.
Felipe Massa in 2011, highest ...
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Why are artificial chicanes placed at the run off for long straights?
As you mentioned these foam barriers were put in to stop cars gaining an advantage by cutting the corner, either inadvertently or on purpose. Driving around them slows the car down to the extent it ...
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What are the "Sprint" and "Sprint Shootout" in F1 Grand Prix?
As of 2023, the F1 "sprint race weekends" are effectively two entirely separate races:
The sprint race, which takes place on the Saturday of the race weekend. This is a short race (100km) ...
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Racing Country colors - what are they and when were they decided?
The colours originated from the Gordon Bennett Cup, an international motor racing event in which each competitor represented their home country. To help distinguish which cars were representing which ...
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Safety Car vs Virtual Safety Car
In my humble opinion working as Track Marshal for more than a decade, the use of VSC is to keep the leader's (and other participants) gap to the rest of the field and for safety reasons.
The VSC was ...
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What are the widest tires to be used in F1?
After searching a bit, there is not much detail or a definite answer, but this Autosport article says the 1992 tyre width was 420mm and the biggest until now.
But this other link of Tyre-Shopper says ...
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Safety Car vs Virtual Safety Car
In addition to the other answers, I would like to add that a full safety car does have a few benefits when compared with a VSC, and this is one of the main factors in determining when this should be ...
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Who was the first motorsport driver to perform ‘shoey’ - drinking alcohol out of a shoe, on podium?
The shoey made its way to major motorsport for the first time in 2015.
It all started with V8 Utes driver Ryal Harris, who performed the very first motorsport shoey at the Perth round of the series in ...
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Highest Formula One WDC ranking without a podium finish?
Looking at the past season, I will focus on post-2003 seasons since points were awarded for lower finishing positions from 2003 onwards, meaning more drivers could score points and therefore rank ...
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How does Formula E measure remaining battery energy?
I see nothing that suggests that the battery itself is measured. Instead, I would presume that the energy flow is measured directly (rather like the power meter into a house).
From the 2017-2018 ...
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Driver with the Most Race Wins in a Single Season
At the time the question was asked, the record was 13 wins in a season, held by two drivers: Michael Schumacher, who won 13 out of 18 races in 2004; and Sebastian Vettel, who won 13 out of 19 races in ...
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How do racing cars use aerodynamic ground effect?
A simplistic way to think about this is that the wing is shoving air from one side to the other. This creates higher and lower pressure regions around the wing that cause lift (higher pressure below ...
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Formula 1: How does Sprint Qualifying affect the starting grid on race day?
Got myself the answer. Turns out, the starting grid of Sunday is completely defined by the result of Sprint Qualifying, and the result of the usual Qualifying is completely ignored, regarding to the ...
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Rallye - What happens in a time shootout if an incident blocks the road?
Generally when something like this happens in Rallying the affected competitors are awarded a "fair" time by the clerk of the course. As the WRC sporting regulations put it:
When a special ...
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Most yellow flags in Indy 500
For the number of cautions (yellow flags), not the number of laps under yellow flag, as you asked, there is a tie between 1997 and 1988, with 14 cautions.
In 1997, these were the cautions:
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Why are there so many motorsport/race series?
Start from the premise that there are two reasons for motorsport: for profit, and for sheer enjoyment.
At the incredibly low cost end, there are various motorsport series round the world. They are ...
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F1: Mandatory tyre compounds
The mandatory compounds are there to prevent teams from favoring only the softest, fastest compound, as these mandatory compounds are usually the hardest and the second-hardest dry weather compounds ...
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F1: Mandatory tyre compounds
Those two mandatory sets are related to the mandatory tyre change during the race. Pirelli choses 2 sets of tyres with one of them having to be used during the race. So it actually gives the teams a ...
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How do companies get their logos on racing cars?
The question has a lot of varying answers. A car can have sponsors, the event itself has sponsors and a driver can have sponsors. As noted previous, the driver's sponsor will have badges on their ...
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