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How Much Can CNN Get Wrong About F1 Engines, Physics In One Article?
Jalopnik ^ | 8/12 | Jason Torchinsky

Posted on 08/15/2013 1:15:27 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Edited on 08/15/2013 2:19:50 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

I think CNN must be hiring Amish kids on Rumspringa for its motorsports writers. That's really the only way you could explain the rich, lavish ignorance as demonstrated in this article about turbo engines returning to F1.

The basic facts are there — F1 regulations are calling for a return to turbocharged engines, which will be returning to F1 after 26 years, and that first Renault RS01 back in '77 certainly did have its share of teething issues, and would often dramatically blow its engine, like many of the other early turbocharged cars.

Excerpt, read the rest at jalonik.com


TOPICS: Education; Humor; Sports
KEYWORDS: f1; media; turbos
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1 posted on 08/15/2013 1:15:27 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers
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To: Admin Moderator

I forgot to note that the above is an excerpt.


2 posted on 08/15/2013 1:17:21 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (The average American voter is an idiot. Which is how the Dems want it.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

I am speechless.


3 posted on 08/15/2013 1:19:50 PM PDT by steve86 (Thank you for your prayers for Margaret!)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

F1 flubs...heh, let us all remember global warming...er...climate change...er...carbon pollution.

All reported to you by folks who found high school algebra to be beyond their diminutive abilities.


4 posted on 08/15/2013 1:20:12 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

AND THEY SAY CONSERVATIVES ARE DUMB WHEN IT COMES TO SCIENCE.....

5 posted on 08/15/2013 1:20:53 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers; Chode

CNN is as good at reporting F1 as they are about reporting any other news story.


6 posted on 08/15/2013 1:21:00 PM PDT by henkster (The 0bama regime isn't a train wreck, it's a B 17 raid on the rail yard.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

I do not watch CNN but this level of stupidity must break new boundaries.


7 posted on 08/15/2013 1:24:28 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

“Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article contained a number of inaccuracies, for which we apologise. Christina Macfarlane and Rachel Wood, who prepared the television story, were in no way responsible for those inaccuracies. You can watch their report at the top of this article.”

LOL!


8 posted on 08/15/2013 1:24:41 PM PDT by chrisser (Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
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To: steve86
"Indeed, throughout the 1980s, the powerful turbo was the F1 engine of choice, able to perform at high altitudes and grip onto steep angles."


9 posted on 08/15/2013 1:25:33 PM PDT by steve86 (Thank you for your prayers for Margaret!)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers; null and void

Ya gotta love those Journalistic engineers!

Sounds like their ‘physics’ was enacted by the US Congress.


10 posted on 08/15/2013 1:27:41 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
I'm thinking he did his research from a "Roadrunner" cartoon.
Wile E. Coyote type Acme engine.
11 posted on 08/15/2013 1:27:57 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
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To: wally_bert

>> “but this level of stupidity must break new boundaries” <<

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See! Obama is inspiring America.


12 posted on 08/15/2013 1:29:42 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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13 posted on 08/15/2013 1:30:29 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: henkster
CNN is as good at reporting F1 as they are about reporting any other news story.

I actually consider them first choice during breaking international news developments. Fox News is a joke.

This story obviously comes from their domestic retard department.

14 posted on 08/15/2013 1:30:40 PM PDT by steve86 (non politically-correct comment)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

I was at Watkins Glen in 1977 when the 1.5 liter Renault turbo was the first and only turbo in the field. It sounded awful compared to the 3.0 liter normally aspirated engines. At the top of the esses where I was sitting it backfired whenever the driver upshifted, which was cause for a lot of derisive laughter from the crowd (this was when drivers moved a shift lever and worked a clutch).

Of course in a few years turbos were dominating F1. They were technological marvels, but nothing ever sounded as good as those naturally aspirated engines, particularly the V12 Matra.


15 posted on 08/15/2013 1:33:37 PM PDT by Stevenc131
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
How Much Can CNN Get Wrong About F1 Engines, Physics In One Article?

All of it. What else would one expect of the Communist News Network?

16 posted on 08/15/2013 1:34:01 PM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Journalism remains a viable choice for failed education majors.


17 posted on 08/15/2013 1:35:36 PM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
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To: Chode
Ping

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18 posted on 08/15/2013 1:37:25 PM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Stevenc131

I dunno... I’ll agree with you on the turbo motors, especially the BMW/Megatron which sounded like it ran on Taco Bell burritos, but as for normally aspirated motors I’m rather partial to the Cosworth DFV.


19 posted on 08/15/2013 1:37:41 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (The average American voter is an idiot. Which is how the Dems want it.)
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To: steve86
I actually consider them first choice during breaking international news developments.

As long as the story is either between, say midnight and 8 am when the editors start to drift in to work, or is a live feed that bypasses the editor/propagandists, CNN does an acceptable job.

20 posted on 08/15/2013 1:38:18 PM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
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