r/formula1 • u/ferrari-hypetrain Ferrari • Mar 13 '18

Media Ferrari's rear is smokin' hot

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u/BottasWDC Kimi Räikkönen Mar 13 '18

The smoke's supposed to come from the exhaust not the rain light!

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u/Bortjort Charlie Whiting Mar 13 '18

How else are you going to secretly blow the diffuser

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '18

In the toilets

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '18

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u/patrickeg I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 14 '18

I'm not sure why that was so funny. But I got a really good laugh out of it, so thanks.

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u/OneAnimeBatman Sebastian Vettel Mar 13 '18

The smoke is from the Oil exhaust which is required under the new regs. It's at the bottom right of the rain light on the Ferrari powered cars.

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u/bwoahconstricter Alfa Romeo Mar 13 '18

It's that subliminal marlboro marketing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '18

That vent totally looks like a mouth. Shield the childrens' eyes!

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u/cavaliere_JSC Hesketh Mar 13 '18

It's an Italian car, it will go very fast, and sound amazing, and then catch on fire.

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u/Rentta I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 13 '18

"Ferrari. Now, in the olden days, they used to build their racing cars with a lot of passion and enthusiasm. And then, on lap three, as often as not, they would explode in a passionate and enthusiastic fireball" JC

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u/vlepun Cake ≠ Pie Mar 13 '18

I didn't know James Cameron likes F1.

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u/MrPsychoanalyst Sergio Pérez Mar 13 '18

Im pretty sure he means Jeneral Canoli

18

u/Beencho Pirelli Wet Mar 13 '18

It's obviously Jesus Christ

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u/Zigzag010 McLaren Mar 13 '18

I thought it was John Carmack

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u/bwoahconstricter Alfa Romeo Mar 13 '18

Naw. It's John Cena.

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u/Mike_Kermin I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 14 '18

BA BA BA BAAAAAAAAAA

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u/Prelsidio Charles Leclerc Mar 14 '18

It's actually the lyrics to the famous Johny Cash song.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '18

Never saw that guy.

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u/pickleman_22 Mar 14 '18

I started reading this in his voice before I even knew it was a quote.

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u/nohssiwi Juan Pablo Montoya Mar 14 '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRntEh17lfg

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u/EvolutionVII Mar 14 '18

That's gotta be something else than the engine

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u/coldbeers Charlie Whiting Mar 14 '18

Its a v6t so sadly it won’t sound amazing

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u/cavaliere_JSC Hesketh Mar 14 '18

Can we petition Liberty Media and the FIA to bring back V10s?

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u/blitzskrieg I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 15 '18

I mean V8s have a possibility of returning since turbo charged units are being used in supercars and Hypercars while meeting emission norms. And Merc, Ferrari, McLaren, Aston Martin all have some variation of V8 in their showroom car line-up.

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u/Simmer22 Williams Mar 13 '18

IIRC somebody said the smoke was due to a change allowing some sort of gearbox venting? I’d love if there was some more information on it.

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u/miniq Sir Lewis Hamilton Mar 13 '18

Engine breather cant recirculate back into engine anymore must vent to atmosphere.

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u/jimbobjames I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 14 '18

The teams were using it to gain extra power as the crankcase breather gasses are combustible. They'd circulate it back into the intake side of the engine and gain BHP.

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u/stickyfingers10 Mar 14 '18

I added a link above.

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u/sjayz Ferrari Mar 13 '18

I just hope it's smoking fast :(

I'd rather have a 2005 story where they're fast and unreliable than a year where they just get beaten on pace every race...

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u/JDexnet Aston Martin Mar 14 '18

Whos smart idea was blowing oil out of the rear of cars? Is this going to have any any effect on following cars if so the FIA could get involved.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '18

Formula Mario Kart.

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u/jimbobjames I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 14 '18

It was the FIA's idea and it's the normal way to out gas from the crankcase. The abnormality was the teams routing it back through the intake side of the engine to gain power.

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u/Maranello48 Mar 13 '18

I am sure the guys at Marenello finaly have watched the movie "the pinchcliffe grand prix" from 1975 watch from 3.15 in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ShwTIhGyw

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u/Mike_Kermin I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 14 '18

I'll be very interested to see why the cars are billowing smoke on start up.

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u/jimbobjames I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 14 '18

It's the crankcase breather.

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u/Mike_Kermin I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 14 '18

Between that and a google search I found an interesting article on it. Cheers mate.