Reply 1988 16.mp4
The 1988 season had everyone keeping an eye on the team. McLaren had Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost paired together. Honda, the gold standard for engines in F1 at the time, was the engine supplier for the team.
Reply 1988 16.mp4
Statistically, the MP4/4 is the most dominant and successful F1 car of all time. Winning 15 of the 16 races during the 1988 season, the MP4/4 has a success rate of just over 93%. The closest another car has come to breaking this record is Mercedes with their W07 in 2016, having a success rate of 90% and winning 19 of the 21 races that season.
The car was initially designed to be used with the turbocharged Honda unit, giving the McLaren team a distinct advantage over their rivals who decided to switch to naturally aspirated engines. It was also widely speculated that Honda would introduce their V10 engine for the 1988 season. Ron Dennis then later confirmed that the V10 engine was not part of the plan for 1988.
For the 1988 season, six chassis were constructed using carbon fibre monocoque technology, with thee assistance of American aerospace company, Hercules Aerospace. Numbered 1 through 6, they were all used throughout the year at some point.
Here is my constructive criticism:Because it is UNDERSTOOD by now that you (and ALL the speedhunters staff) go thru "research the old fashioned way-books and seat time" ALL the time, EVERY time ! We ALL (Speedhunters readers) could do the exact same research. (we have all internet access, so looking up Senna's victories and championships shouldn't be too hard).What you SP staff do (for the most part) is posting up stuff that has already been discussed one million times in one million blogs before.And the "news" you post, are actually taken from other blogs. In other words, NOTHING new. It's just restating someone's else idea/ comment.You and all the SP staff try to appeal to this audience with material that has been covered time and time again by many other blogs. In other words, the stuff that you guys post is hardly a news.If I were to criticize this particularly post, you HAD to research the material (because you were not born during Senna's prime). Isn't it something we ALL could do? Isn't Senna a topic that has been beaten to death already? How original is that?The is so much information on the internet. I guess LOTS of readers don't do much research these days.You want another negative point Patrick? How often you guys reply to people's comments? NEVER ! You and everyone else that work for SP HARDLY ever reply to people's comments on here (unless like me, is someone that pisses you off).People on here try to engage in a conversation and actually learn something from you guys, and you fail to understand that. YOU are the one that goes to car shows, YOU are the one that goes to car races. Show some respect to people and answer their question. Otherwise, don't bother posting !You want another point? You guys HARDLY post anything in the weekend ! Why? because you are paid minimum wage and don't give a fvck about working on this site in the weekend. (if there's an important race/ car-meet or event), you post the facts on the following Monday. AGAIN, not a news. By then many other blogs already talked about it. The amount of "news" you guys post in the weekend is far less than the ones during the week !Which brings me to the next topic: if you guys are so "car-fanatics", like myself, you would work around the clock 24/7, unfortunately you don't. Excuses like "time to hit the sack", or "the jetlag kicks in"....I've heard that too many times.How about posts that talk about yourself (the Speedhunters' staff) rather than the cars? I (like many others) could care less about YOUR life. I come on here to read about CARS and NEWS from the automotive world.If you feel like Facebook and Twitters are not good-enough tools to expand your social network, I suggest you start your own blog like many others; so you can post all the sh!t you want. Stick to cars and news.Last but not least, what happened to your post about your Caddy? I asked you that question before and I didn't get an answer. Mind to clarify?
McLaren and Honda to modern F1 viewers are usually associated with underpowered and unreliable engines. Back in 1988 however, the Mp4/4 evoked real fear in the hands of Senna and Prost.
The 1988 F1 season had the potential to see a shake-up of the established order. Reigning champions Williams had lost their Honda engines to McLaren, now racing with Judd power. Nelson Piquet entered the season as the World Champion, having won his third title in 1987, his second in a row. Expectations were high, but it was McLaren that started the season with the most to gain.
When the car took to the track at Barcelona in the first test of 1988, McLaren.com highlights that Prost knew within his opening few laps that the MP4/4 would win the championship. Prost was so certain it is rumoured he told this to team principal Ron Dennis. To reach that conclusion in testing after just a few laps proved to be an ominous sign and heightened expectation.
McLaren of course would bounce back, winning the following race, and all remaining races of 1988. All bar one race had been won in 1988, with Senna becoming World Champion after taking the title at the final race at Suzuka.
McLaren was the first to show F1 the results of a truly devastating F1 car. Had it not been for a wayward Williams Judd at Monza, McLaren would have won every race in 1988. Its legendary driver lineup, emotive soundtrack, win ratio and evocative livery give the MP4/4 the accolade of being the greatest F1 car ever to have been built.
The Honda-powered MP4/4 remains one of the most successful F1 cars ever to compete in the sport. In the hands of Senna and archenemy Alain Prost, it won 15 out of 16 Grand Prix in 1988 and clinched all but one pole position that year.
(Sources: Amazing Computing of July 1988, November 1988, and June 1989; Amiga Power of November 1991; Commodore Magazine of November 1988; Computer and Video Games of April 1988; The Games Machine of April 1988; The One of January 1989 and June 1989; Retro Gamer 123; the book On the Edge by Brian Bagnall; Matt Chat 292; two Gamasutra interviews of Bob Jacob, one by Matt Barton and the other by Tristan Donovan.
The underwater acoustic environment in the Mayport turning basin is likely to be dominated by noise from day-to-day port and vessel activities. The basin is sheltered from most wave noise, but is a high-use area for naval ships, tugboats, and security vessels. When underway, these sources can create noise between 20 Hz and 16 kHz (Lesage et al., 1999), with broadband noise levels up to 180 dB. While there are no current measurements of ambient noise levels in the turning basin, it is likely that levels within the basin periodically exceed the 120 dB threshold and, therefore, that the high levels of anthropogenic activity in the basin create an environment far different from quieter habitats where behavioral reactions to sounds around the 120 dB threshold have been observed (e.g., Malme et al., 1984, 1988).
According to the Scott et al. (1988) hypothesis, a single stock was thought to migrate seasonally between New Jersey (summer) and central Florida (winter). Instead, it was determined that a mix of resident and migratory stocks exists, with the migratory movements and spatial distribution of the southern migratory stock the most poorly understood of these. Stable isotope analysis and telemetry studies provide evidence for seasonal movements of dolphins between North Carolina and northern Florida (Knoff, 2004; Waring et al., 2011), and genetic analyses and tagging studies support differentiation of northern and southern migratory stocks (Rosel et al., 2009; Waring et al., 2011). Although there is significant uncertainty regarding the southern migratory stock's spatial movements, telemetry data indicates that the stock occupies waters of southern North Carolina (south of Cape Lookout) during the fall (October-December). In winter months (January-March), the stock moves as far south as northern Florida where it overlaps spatially with the northern Florida coastal and Jacksonville estuarine system stocks. In spring (April-June), the stock returns north to waters of North Carolina, and is presumed to remain north of Cape Lookout during the summer months. Therefore, the potential exists for harassment of southern migratory dolphins, most likely during the winter only.
The original, single stock of coastal dolphins recognized from 1995-2001 was listed as depleted under the MMPA as a result of a 1987-88 mortality event. That designation was retained when the single stock was split into multiple coastal stocks. However, Scott et al. (1988) suggested that dolphins residing in the bays, sounds and estuaries adjacent to these coastal waters were not affected by the mortality event and these animals were explicitly excluded from the depleted listing (Waring et al., 2009b). Gubbins et al. (2003), using data from Caldwell (2001), estimated the stock size to be 412 (CV = 0.06). However, NMFS considers abundance unknown because this estimate likely includes an unknown number of non-resident and seasonally-resident dolphins. It nevertheless represents the best available information regarding stock size. The minimum population estimate and PBR are considered unknown, and there are insufficient data to determine population trends. Total human-caused mortality and serious injury for this stock is also unknown, but there are known to be significant interactions between estuarine bottlenose dolphins and crab pot fisheries in other areas (Burdett and McFee, 2004). Because the stock size is likely small, and relatively few mortalities and serious injuries would exceed PBR, the stock is considered to be a strategic stock (Waring et al., 2009b). 041b061a72