Red Bull RB18 brake assembly.
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EnginePaul (Jun 11, 2022)
Had to look hard to find it but there actually is a caliper and rotor buried in all that auxiliary cooling
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It's mostly energy recovery bits.Originally Posted by Frank S
Ok, is it an electric or hybrid vehicle then? Sure looks like a lot of un-sprung mass to me
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It's an F1 hybrid car, zillion dollar carbon fiber isn't very heavy.
Last edited by bob_3000; Jun 10, 2022 at 09:03 PM.
Frank S (Jun 10, 2022)
The rules dictate that you have to have it. It is not hybrid as that is generally thought of. It is braking energy recovery which is stored and can be used to give an acceleration boost when needed.
Sounds complicated just to go fast. but I'm not a racer or even a racing enthusiast. I understand the function of regenerative braking often found in EV and hybrid vehicles. But in those vehicles the amount of recovered energy is negligible for people who hardly ever use their brakes and just gently slow down before stopping. The whole mass+ kinetic versus inertia is completely lost for them, where as a couple 100 lbs of lower vehicle weight is a huge savings. Strip all of the little, seldom, and never used features out of their vehicles and they would nearly double their milage figures without doing anything.
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EnginePaul (Jun 11, 2022)
It is not for going fast. It is about F1's desired image of going green. I doubt that it fools many people.
Frank S (Jun 11, 2022)
Well, you ain't gonna go to Les Schwab fer a brake job. Can you imagine the look on the mech's face?
Yeah, he be like UH! ER! Well Maybe your problem is with this doohickey here, or maybe it's that thingamajig, I'm sure it is not the whatchamacallits though
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