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Nico Rosberg has won the inaugural Grand Prix at Baku, leading the race from start to finish. Sebastian Vettel finished a distant second, and he too was unthreatened in that position. Perhaps the happiest man on the podium was Sergio Perez, who followed up on his podium finish at Monaco some weeks earlier.
Imo those PUs are a bit too complicated to leave alone the driver, some kind of help is neededalc59 wrote:Couldn't agree more. I expect the man in the driving seat to understand and manage everything that his car is doing.Xwang wrote:According to me they should ban all radio and remote connection between cars and box (radio, telemetry and so on).
Then the pilot has to manage the car and the engineers have to create a steering wheel with the data and commands needed by the pilot to manage the car.
"I know i, was one of "them".3jawchuck wrote:
A large portion of fans who support any specific driver/team are simply terrible people. Sport often brings out the worst in people.
Even better: they could have changed the wheel, with the correct settings as preset/updated.Wynters wrote:Just out of interest, could Hamilton or Raikonnen driven into the pits for a pitstop and let a mechanic lean in and change their settings for them?
Cold Fussion wrote:You weren't asking how the track was, you very explicitly said it was a dull track.FoxHound wrote:That's why I'm asking... only caught glimpses of the track and race this weekend, and it appears to have too many 90 degree turns and some silly kerb placements.PlatinumZealot wrote:Track is awesome and most of the drivers agreed. I don't see how this is supposed to be a dull track? Mega high speed straight, massive elevation changes, high speed downhill double left hand, walls to crash into, lilmited run off... The race itself was Ok, maybe an 8/10 but was I watching the same track as you?
But thanks for sharing your thoughts on the track Cold Fussion....oh wait.....you didn't.FoxHound wrote:As an aside, what was everyone's thoughts on the track itself? Seems apart from the straight, it's dull as dishwater!
I think it would have been enough to open his visor and tell him something like “The problem appears to be with the current mode that you are in, so change the mode!".Jolle wrote:Even better: they could have changed the wheel, with the correct settings as preset/updated.Wynters wrote:Just out of interest, could Hamilton or Raikonnen driven into the pits for a pitstop and let a mechanic lean in and change their settings for them?
The conclusion, it wasn't that easy. They could have asked the race director: we have a malfunction, are we allowed to ask for a different setting, or changed the steeringwheel, plugged in a laptop briefly, etc etc. with around 1 or even 2 seconds per lap, it would have been a easy investment. But they didn't, so it was something elsebasti313 wrote:I think it would have been enough to open his visor and tell him something like “The problem appears to be with the current mode that you are in, so change the mode!".Jolle wrote:Even better: they could have changed the wheel, with the correct settings as preset/updated.Wynters wrote:Just out of interest, could Hamilton or Raikonnen driven into the pits for a pitstop and let a mechanic lean in and change their settings for them?
Not really that simple. Here's a brief overview of the Mercedes wheels. http://www.f1hub.net/index.php/technica ... el-3/9493/basti313 wrote:I think it would have been enough to open his visor and tell him something like “The problem appears to be with the current mode that you are in, so change the mode!".Jolle wrote:Even better: they could have changed the wheel, with the correct settings as preset/updated.Wynters wrote:Just out of interest, could Hamilton or Raikonnen driven into the pits for a pitstop and let a mechanic lean in and change their settings for them?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/36571236"Nico had made a change during the race that caused the issue," said a Mercedes spokesperson. "So when told it was an issue with the mode, as permitted by FIA, he switched back out of it.
"Lewis had the setting from start of race and it was not obvious that this setting was causing the problem. The fundamental problem is on our heads as it was a configuration not working properly, not the driver's fault.
