Math, speed, vectors and speed....newtonien question !!

stratege1401

stratege1401
patch 1.8

Rethorical question here, as i saw a very strange spin ...

When a car is inside a turn (from left to right) at high speed and suddenly spin, in what direction the spin occurs ?? The spin is not triggers by a shock or by hitting something.

- the front of the car spin to the right side, the same directions of the turn ??
OR
- the front side spin to the left side of the turn ??

In F1 the center of mass is engineered near the geometric center of the car. The rear (powered) wheels always "lose traction" first, except in extreme braking when the front wheels are the first to slide.

[ Centrifugal force, (which tends to move away from the center) common but abusive expression encountered in kinematics designating the inertia of a body tending to continue its movement in a straight line during a uniform circular movement. ]

The Centrifugal force in that case would make the car spin in the same direction as the turn... left to right.... Correct me if i am wrong ...

Round 6 - Barcelona - turn 3 or 4 ( not sure )... A car spinned to the left in a right corner ... strange no ???
 

Ewan Huzarmy

Ewan Huzarmy
You are describing/questioning things which would/should happen in a simulation of the physics… but the 3D view in the game is merely a representation of the numbers being calculated in the background to decide the outcome of chance events, not a physics based simulation. Like a big game of dice.

The animations used to show a car leaving the track are just a handful of stock representations of that event. I imagine that what you saw was an occasion where the wrong animation was picked for that event… not an actual representation of what would/should happen if it was based on a physics calculation.

I hope that makes sense, I’m not criticising you, only offering a possible explanation for what you experienced.

One could see the fact that people are convinced by the realism of the 3D view as a big win for Frontier!
 

Bobble2017

Bobble2017
If you are turning right , the car would spin in a clockwise direction but slide out to the left
turning left it would spin anti clockwise but spin out away from the corner apex to the right
 
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