Supplier Brembo explains how it is with the remmerij in the city state on the Côte d’azur.
Since year and day is Monaco, the slowest circuit on the calendar, and that mainly has to do with the lack of long straights. Nevertheless, there is much inhibited during a visit to Monte Carlo. Very, very, very much. Fortunately, the disks and clutches that Brembo this year is very calculated on their task. The new drives have been widened and also equipped with 1,400 instead of 1,200 holes that provide much needed cooling.
A lot of brakes…
Despite the fact that the brakes are used a lot (940 times in a race), it is with the tax itself. The speeds are still low and so there is, relatively speaking, not very hard use of the brakes. However, pitching a driver, on average, approximately 16 counts per lap (about 1:13 min) inhibited. According to Brembo, there is a also 23% of the racetijd inhibited.
… but not very hard
The cars of this year thanks to their additional grip and greater frontaaloppervlak slow down up to a whopping 6G. In Monaco it happens however not. There are 12 zones where possible, and da’s are by far the highest number of the whole can be added. On average, drivers in addition to 3.6 G to endure, and per round of about 211 kWh generated thanks to ERS-systems. Also that number is on no other circuit is higher.
Drivers practice per minute 1.050 kg of pressure on the brake pedal and the only place on the circuit by Brembo is to be considered as a point where the brakes are really on their falie get is after coming out of the tunnel, at the approach of the havenchicane. Here the men of 285 km/h to 90 km/h in less than two seconds and all that in only 56 metres. Get a load of your neck as you look at it…
The race
Yesterday, the first free training sessions held on the street circuit of Monaco. in the Morning was Mercedes still the fastest, but in the afternoon, one came in the area near the Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel. It is good to know that Red Bull the RB13 still equipped with a T-wing. Let’s hope that thing Max and Daniel helps in obtaining a good result during the race, which, of course, on Sunday is held.
Photo: Carlos Sainz who, like Kvyat, pretty rap was during VT1 and 2