<story><title>How the McMurtry Electric Fan Car Clocked a 7.9-Second Quarter-Mile</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-the-mcmurtry-electric-fan-car-clocked-a-7-9-second-quarter-mile</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dom96</author><text>I wonder why it still remains banned. Surely once all cars can get the same fans it should be allowed?</text></item><item><author>joncrane</author><text>It was actually banned almost immediately after convincingly winning its inaugural race, at the hands of the legendary Niki Lauda.</text></item><item><author>ambicapter</author><text>The downforce fan technique was also done by Formula 1 in the late 70s before being banned the year after. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Brabham_BT46#Brabham_BT46B_%E2%80%93_the_fan_car&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Brabham_BT46#Brabham_BT46B_%E2...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barkingcat</author><text>F1 racing bans a lot of tech. For example, anti-lock brakes and AWD are banned in F1.&lt;p&gt;Just because all cars can get it easily doesn&amp;#x27;t mean F1 want it. Most often the quoted reason is to have a better spectator sport and to make it safer. I really doubt those reasons because you can still have a difficult and tight race while having all the modern safety features. For example why don&amp;#x27;t F1 cars have entire car air bags (ie air bags that envelop the entire car that deploy when the car goes airborne in a crash&amp;#x2F;rollover)? if it&amp;#x27;s too &amp;quot;heavy&amp;quot; just make a rule that all F1 cars need to have air bags so the playing field is even.&lt;p&gt;F1 cars should have self driving collision avoidance that can activate faster than human response times as well. that would be way safer for everyone involved.</text></comment>
<story><title>How the McMurtry Electric Fan Car Clocked a 7.9-Second Quarter-Mile</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-the-mcmurtry-electric-fan-car-clocked-a-7-9-second-quarter-mile</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dom96</author><text>I wonder why it still remains banned. Surely once all cars can get the same fans it should be allowed?</text></item><item><author>joncrane</author><text>It was actually banned almost immediately after convincingly winning its inaugural race, at the hands of the legendary Niki Lauda.</text></item><item><author>ambicapter</author><text>The downforce fan technique was also done by Formula 1 in the late 70s before being banned the year after. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Brabham_BT46#Brabham_BT46B_%E2%80%93_the_fan_car&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Brabham_BT46#Brabham_BT46B_%E2...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>We could build a car which no human being could survive a 100 mile race in today. The human is the limiting factor so we have to limit the technology to what humans (even elite sportsmen) can deal with.&lt;p&gt;There are all kinds of restrictions added to race cars of almost any series, some for commercial reasons (promoting the original vehicle in rallying and touring cars for example), some for financial (generally to keep the price of entry reasonable) and sometimes for safety.</text></comment>