[DeTomaso] NPC Shell Ferrari Ad

doug351c doug351c at gmail.com
Sun Oct 19 14:28:56 EDT 2014


Increasing speed though a given turn results in increasing acceleration and it is acceleration that wreaks havoc on the human body.  Car drivers are subject to the same limitations as fighter pilots when subjected to acceleration forces (In a car it's turning, braking, accelerating).  The typical max a pilot can briefly endure is 10 g's but that requires the wearing of a g suit which forces blood up from the legs to the brain to prevent tunnel vision and blackout.  If I remember right, current forumla cars can achieve 3 to 4 g's in high speed turns using aero downforce.  The low speed turns become limited by the tire grip which maxes out around 1.3 g's.  When lateral forces above around 1.3 g's occur, it's with the help of aero downforce.  

Doug Braun
blue 73L #5505

-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com]On Behalf Of Bill Lewis
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 11:13 AM
To: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC Shell Ferrari Ad


So, watching the cars go much slower through the hair pin curves, the question arises, assuming that the car can safely make ANY curve at any speed - what speed is a human driver capable of attaining through these curves?  Wouldn't that be a heck of a simulator ride!    --BILL Lewis

From: jjdetrich at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:08:45 -0500
To: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC Shell Ferrari Ad

From: egj7217 at att.net
To: egj7217 at att.net
Sent: 10/16/2014 9:15:10 A.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: FW: Shell Commercial . . .
 
 
Can you just imagine the red tape, permits and cost to pull off this
commercial?
 
Here's a link to a Shell commercial shown in Europe .
Ostensibly, they're selling gasoline, but the cars used in the video steal
the show.  Ferrari pulled several of their race cars from various ages out
of storage, flew them around the world and filmed them running through the
streets of Rome, Rio, New York, Hong Kong, Honolulu and Monaco.
 
No computer graphics, these are the original cars on the original streets.
The best part is the sound from the basso-profundo notes of the early,
front-engine era, each scene cuts to a later generation, ending with the
wail of a modern F1 car.
 
There's just something about 3 liters and 14,000 RPM!
 
​Ferrari Shell Commercial High Quality
<https://www.youtube.com/embed/1_kwxzU4wL4>

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