MotoGP and F1 braking

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MotoGP and F1 braking

Post by JeffStrom » Thu Aug 23, 2018 8:48 am

Something most of us knew, but the magnitude of the difference is pretty impressive.

Pedrosa and Marquez driving F1 cars...

""Braking was the thing that impressed me the most about the F1 car," Marquez explains to Autosport. "At the Red Bull Ring with a MotoGP bike, I brake when I get through the 200m mark. Driving the F1 car, I braked after the 50m mark."

The most aggressive braking points are on the first three turns. At the first one, MotoGP bikes slow down from 199mph to 60mph and riders spend 5.2 seconds touching the brakes. At that point, F1 drivers have reached 208mph and reduce their speed to 87mph, having their foot on the brake for 1.8s - less than half the time of their MotoGP counterparts.

Those proportions stay the same at the other two hairpins. At the first of these, MotoGP bikes go from 218mph to 25mph in 5s, while F1 cars get to 196mph and hit the brakes for 2.4s to complete the turn at 56mph.

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https://rideapart.com/articles/motogp-b ... ez-pedrosa
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Re: MotoGP and F1 braking

Post by fixxervi6 » Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:12 am

pretty damn amazing what some downforce combined with increased contact patch will do.
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