Indy 500 and Formula1, Alonso's technical challenge.

Let's analyze the new challenge of #fernandoalonso between #f1 and #indy

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" INDY IS MORE CRUDE, F1 IS MORE PREDICTABLE"

Fernando Alonso

Fernando Alonso will try the sports blow trying to win the 500 Miles of Indianapolis with the Indy Car. It's a tough challenge because the Spanish driver will fall into an aesthetically-designed cockpit that is very similar to Formula One, but for so many reasons, a profoundly different one.

After the Bahrain GP, ​​Fernando Alonso left his F1 McLaren steering wheel to literally fly to the USA where next week's Indy Series race will come alive and will then fall into the cockpit of his Dallara-Honda .

Moving from Formula One to American Open Wheels it's very difficult. To find out what challenges and changes will face the Asturian driver, I find out all these differences between Formula One and Indy Car.

In Formula One it's really hard to see new faces in the first three positions at the end of the race. Very often drivers who listen to their own hymn on the podium steps are always the same. Suffice it to think that in the last two years we have usually seen Hamilton, Vettel, Rosberg overturning celebratory champagne, alternating only occasionally by Ricciardo and Verstappen. The riders who alternated on the podium in the Indy Car series have been around 30 in the last three years. About the demonstration that the American-wheeled discovery series is more competitive and rewards the difference between a pilot and more than The performance difference of single-seaters.

Rarely in Formula One we witnessed a photofinish arrival, with wheel-to-wheel riders cutting the finish line. In addition, in the FIA's largest engine series, the gap between the first and the second ranked is rarely below the second. In the Indy Car series, the races end much more often with the arrival of three or four single-seater cars that win the race within a few tenths of a second.



The Indy Car championships are much more fought than Formula One races, with riders who come to the last race of the season with very few points that put them in the standings. The 2012 season was memorable, when Ryan Hunter-Raay and Will Power arrived at the last race of only three points.. not forgetting the 2015 season, featuring Scott Dixon and Juan Pablo Montoya, 556 points Each but with Montoya winner for the most seasonal victories.

Indy Car engines are much less complex than those of Formula One, with propulsion engines reaching 12,000 rpm instead of 15,000 rpm of the hybrid power unit. There are also Indy engines horses with 700 foals instead of 900. Absent any type of energy recovery system or Kers, on US car monopoly, while the Push-To-Pass is present, which allows the delivery of 60 horsepower boosts Useful to facilitate the overtaking in the race.

Different frames between the two wheeled categories. The F1 prefers the mechanical grip while the Indy is all about aerodynamics with some parts of the Dallara body covering the rear wheels, useful to prevent the take-off of the single-seater after contact between the front wheels and the rear wheels.

Until now he's gaining great results. Are you ready for the race? GO NANDO!!!

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