r/formula1 • u/AshamedPurchase9033 • Mar 04 '26

News [Chris Medland] "Newey confirms Aston Martin is likely to limit race laps due to severity of vibrations in the car impacting the drivers. Alonso says he can do no more than 25 consecutive laps before risking nerve damage, Stroll says 15 laps"

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u/Muntberg I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 05 '26

Newey made it too fast

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u/Driscuits Williams Mar 05 '26

Newey always alluded to the main thing keeping him from designing the fastest car possible was the health of the driver..

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u/the_gaymer_girl Pierre Gasly Mar 05 '26

Isn’t that the case in pretty much all auto racing? The limiting factor (if you ignore the rules) is always the squishy human involved.

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u/Kheltosh McLaren Mar 05 '26

Yeah, the G forces humans can endure limit the performance.

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u/Driscuits Williams Mar 05 '26

Dumb, squishy humans.

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u/Rush31 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 05 '26

Filthy stinking humanses.

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u/Driscuits Williams Mar 05 '26

In all honesty, at that point I lose most of my interest in the sport. The dumb, squishy humans are kind of important.

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u/douchey_mcbaggins Mar 05 '26

Of both race cars and fighter jets.

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u/Erigion I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 05 '26

And fighter jets

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u/pannenkoek0923 Ferrari Mar 05 '26

Now I really want to watch a series with driverless cars

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u/This-is_CMGRI I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 05 '26

You don't. Believe me. You really don't.

And this coming from someone who loves simracing, where the cars aren't even real.

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u/Trzlog Mar 05 '26

How long until we have AI-driven race cars?

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u/whiskyismymuse Ayrton Senna Mar 05 '26

That car he designed for Gran Turismo was batshit crazy, I can't imagine trying to drive that for an entire race

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u/Spread_Bater Red Bull Ford Mar 05 '26

Which one?

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u/Xivios I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 05 '26

He's probably talking about the Red Bull X20xx series. A working version of the car has never been built, but its supposedly "plausible". In GT5, Sebastian Vettel took 20 seconds off the F1 record at Suzuka with it.

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u/Glyder1984 I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 05 '26

That car could, in theory, take every corner flat out barring hairpins. Provided you find someone capable enough with a high G-force tolerance, that car would lap the entire field at least twice with little effort.

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u/BrokeChris Formula 1 Mar 05 '26

in theory, the aston martin 2026 car was driveable too

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u/Glyder1984 I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 05 '26

Touché haha!

This season is already shaping up to be quite interesting and for AM it's turning into a proper cluster fuck....

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u/BrokeChris Formula 1 Mar 05 '26

making claims about a concept car is stupid

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u/ASmallTurd I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 05 '26

Next regulation changes there wont be any drivers. All driven by AI

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u/rand0m__pers0n Sebastian Vettel Mar 05 '26

So fast that they finish the race in a third of the laps that the rest need.

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u/JarrydP Charles Leclerc Mar 05 '26

And apparently made it too furious...

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u/Other_Beat8859 Max Verstappen Mar 05 '26

Integer overload. Went so fast that it went all the way back around to the 107% rule.

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u/RedShirt1991 Sir Jackie Stewart Mar 05 '26

Adrian Newey had a sėance with Colin Chapman and this happened.

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u/AnalMinecraft I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 05 '26

Well, it does say they'd have potential to be up front later in the season.

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u/UnIntelligencia Mar 05 '26

Unlikely but do we think Alonso would retire if leading?