Team: Toto Wolff (Executive Director - Business), Paddy Lowe (Executive Director - Technical), Andy Cowell (Executive Director of Mercedes AMG Powertrains), Niki Lauda (Chairman), Bob Bell (TD), Aldo Costa (ED), Geoffrey Willis (Technology Director), Ron Meadows (SD), Andrew Shovlin (CRE), Simon Cole (CTE), Matthew Dane (CM)
Drivers: Nico Rosberg (6), Lewis Hamilton (44)
Team name: Mercedes AMG F1 Petronas
Was it an automatic action or Lewis saw the alarm and decided to shut down the engine?beelsebob wrote:Uhhh... no.jurinius wrote:Power unit failure confirmedEmerson.F wrote:Lewis's car just broke down on the first lap.
Oil pressure sensor failure.
The sensor can make decisions like this, because if the oil pressure really does drop suddenly, then the engine will be dead much faster than the team can react.Faustino wrote:Automatic reaction. Lewis didn't have a choice, worrying that the car could potentially shut down at any point without any warning. Seems crazy to let a sensor make these decisions when they have a team in the back monitoring all the data in real time.
Yes but what good is it when there's ghosts in the system? The tech should be air tight if it has the option of shutting down a car without any possibility to override.beelsebob wrote:The sensor can make decisions like this, because if the oil pressure really does drop suddenly, then the engine will be dead much faster than the team can react.Faustino wrote:Automatic reaction. Lewis didn't have a choice, worrying that the car could potentially shut down at any point without any warning. Seems crazy to let a sensor make these decisions when they have a team in the back monitoring all the data in real time.
I hope the Mercedes guys are reading this because you're absolutely right about it.Faustino wrote:Yes but what good is it when there's ghosts in the system? The tech should be air tight if it has the option of shutting down a car without any possibility to override.beelsebob wrote:The sensor can make decisions like this, because if the oil pressure really does drop suddenly, then the engine will be dead much faster than the team can react.Faustino wrote:Automatic reaction. Lewis didn't have a choice, worrying that the car could potentially shut down at any point without any warning. Seems crazy to let a sensor make these decisions when they have a team in the back monitoring all the data in real time.
Absolutely.Pieoter wrote:I do not agree, an automatic shutdown is 100% the way to go in practice. I would much prefer to lose a practice session than have only 4 power units left for the season.
On the contrary. The tech should be air tight if it has the option of damaging the engine. It's much more important that the engine doesn't get wrecked for future races than it is to compete in one practice session.Faustino wrote:Yes but what good is it when there's ghosts in the system? The tech should be air tight if it has the option of shutting down a car without any possibility to override.beelsebob wrote:The sensor can make decisions like this, because if the oil pressure really does drop suddenly, then the engine will be dead much faster than the team can react.Faustino wrote:Automatic reaction. Lewis didn't have a choice, worrying that the car could potentially shut down at any point without any warning. Seems crazy to let a sensor make these decisions when they have a team in the back monitoring all the data in real time.
Yes IIRC. But the engine isn't toast. It was only a failed oil pressure sensor.Powershift wrote:but do the friday engines count toward the 5 per season?
Two nice little details about this picture from both ends of the technical spectrum:
