Who Wins In The Formula 1 Vs. Champ Cars Drag Race?

At times I am questioned what are the variations in between a Method 1 and Champ Automobile chassis. Yet how many people today truly know what a Champ Automobile is? (As I am regularly questioned to demonstrate what they are)

However the majority of modern non-racing savvy public only appreciates what “RASSCAR” (Nextel Cup) is… So my uncomplicated reply is: Do you know the cars and trucks that run at the Indianapolis 500? Individuals are “Indycars,” which a Champ Motor vehicle loosely resembles.

Although technically talking, the Indy 500 is the sole area of the Indy Racing League, which is NOT Champ Automobiles. This is owing to the recent state of Open Wheel racing getting been divided amongst two opposing sanctioning bodies when the CART-IRL split transpired back again in 1996…

The most obvious visible big difference between a Champ Motor vehicle and IRL chassis is the rear motor cowling. Champ Autos getting turbocharged do not make use of an overhead airbox. IRL automobiles function a “Method 1-esque” airbox to ram air into the engines induction buried within the carbon fibre enclosure…

And nonetheless this year’s brand new Panoz DP-01 Champ Car will surface to be a hybrid of the collection former Lola B2K chassis and a recent spec Formula 1 contender with its new entrance wing treatment. The new Panoz will also benefit from related F1 steering wheel mounted paddle shifting and a host of new digital motor management capabilities like the removal of the ubiquitous “pop-off” valve…

Supplying an fascinating twist on the matter of Open Wheel racing cars and trucks terminal velocity was the announcement that F1’s BAR-Honda would attack the Bonneville Salt Flats in October 2006 in an exertion to split 400kph…

Further more facts were gleamed although watching last July’s Formulation 1 Qualifying at Silverstone. (Sat, 7/09/06) when the Pace Channel’s Bob Varsha manufactured some intriguing responses throughout the 5AM broadcast.

Varsha pointed out that the BAR-Honda “jalopy” was envisioned to “max-out” at 250+mph running a modified Components 1 chassis with entrance and rear wings removed and using a parachute…

This potential customers again to yet another question I’m usually questioned: Which is a lot quicker: “The rooster or the egg. The Coyote or the Road Runner?” ERR, Method 1 or “chUmp carZs?”

This normally sales opportunities to a comparison of rival equipment. The 2005 BAR-Honda 007 chassis is propelled by a 3. liter generally aspirated V-10,
rumoured to be manufacturing 955bhp @ 19,200RPM’s… Still in July 2005, BAR-Honda was in Very last place of the F1 Constructor’s standings.

Meanwhile the ’05 Champ Car, the Lola/Cosworth 2.65 liter turbocharged V-8 was manufacturing 750bhp @ 37″ of strengthen. Utilizing Cosworth’s “Push-to Move” technological know-how lets drivers 60 seconds of “turbo raise” building an more 50bhp to be applied for a maximum output of 800bhp.

For the duration of the waning decades of Manufacturing facility backed Champ Auto (CART) racing, engines were being rapidly approaching 900bhp. And in 2000 Gil de Ferran recorded Honda’s fifth consecutive CART Drivers’ championship although setting a new environment closed-course pace file of 241.428 mph at California Speedway. (Fontana, CA: 2.5 mile Tri-Oval)

Meanwhile the F1 circus has strike “terminal velocity” speeds of 221+ mph along the front straight of Indianapolis when making the long blast down the straightaway by functioning full throttle for 21 seconds… (Prior to the 2005 Michelin tire DEBACLE!!! Fortuitously I was attending the Portland GI Joes Champ Vehicle race instead…)

This was prior to Formulation 1’s engine downsizing from 3. liter Usually Aspirated V-10’s to 2.4 liter V-8’s by lopping off two cylinders in an effort and hard work to decrease power outputs which have been threatening to exceed 1,000bhp!

This had transpired in the mid 1980’s during F1’s Turbo era which experienced seen 1,100+ bhp all through qualifying from the very small 1.5 liter inline 4’s and V-6 twin turbocharged motors. The spiraling horsepower increases led to the FIA (Formulation 1’s sanctioning body) picking out to return to commonly aspirated engines with the introduction of 3.5 liter most displacement in 1989, with a reduction to 3. liters in 1990… (This engine system stayed in place from 1990 to 2005)

The all time monsters ended up acknowledged as Can Am, which raced from 1966-1974. This noticed the evolution of the all-conquering German Panzer, in any other case recognised as the Porsche 917/30 whose flat 12 turbocharged motor was rumoured to exceed 1,300bhp…

However In the mid-90’s Porsche’s direct descendant of the 917’s: The 956’s followed by the dominant 962’s vs. Jaguar XJR’s (Lemans prototypes) were being the two blasting down the 3. mile Mulsane straight just shy of 250mph. (246+ mph) This led to the addition of two chicanes getting added to carve up the straightaway…

Of program top rated speed is merely relative to the autos software…

On Oct. 15, 1997 the British Thrust SSC became the 1st jet run “car” to break the velocity of Sound! (Mach 1) The dual engine land jet blasted to a two way typical pace of 766.609 mph…

And just where by do the boundaries of best speed conclusion?

For instance, the Lockheed SR-71 flies Quicker then a speeding bullet (3,000 mph), although the XB-70 Valkerie broke ALL records with a top rated speed of Mach 5! (3,700+ mph)

So which is in the end quicker: Components 1 or Champ Autos? Sad to say this will In no way actually be answered as the two diverse sorts of Open Wheel cruise missiles adhere to diverse engine formulas, rules packages, various tires, weights, fuels, gear ratios, and so forth. And the best limiting aspect is the diverse aerodynamic principles enforced by Method 1 vs. Champ Automobiles.

Even the racing is a little distinctive. While both equally race on regular street circuits and utilize the exact “Stage ‘N Squirt” concept of racing. F1 chassis are far more suited in direction of outright acceleration from corner to corner even though Champ Autos were being capable to reach bigger prime speeds although continually circling the banked super speedway ovals throughout the late 1990’s or as exhibited by modern working of the Indy 500…

However throughout the 2006 Champ Motor vehicle Planet Collection raced at Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villenuve, website of the Canadian Formula 1 race, their lap periods have been almost 7 seconds SLOWER then the F1 cars and trucks… (Lap Time Comparison: F1 = 1:14.942 vs. Champ Car or truck = 1:21.856)