For years now they have "shift beeps". When they hear a beep, they shift up.ringo wrote:The drive can read the pitwall, like the good old days.
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I also think the team can use a series of beeps to inform the driver when to pit, It's not going to be hard at all.
In fact i think Nico or Vettel or was it Alonso use Beeps for communication?
Although F1 team radio has been massively restricted in 2016, McLaren’s engineers can still be heard giving orders in codes. These are changed for every event, just in case another team is listening in – secretive indeed.
posted on autosport forumsFrom now on, if a team warns a driver that there is a problem with the car it must include an instruction that forces the driver to come into the pits for necessary repairs.
This will automatically result in a hefty time penalty that would discourage any team using a potential safety issue for performance benefits.
The new FIA note says that a permitted message is: "Indication of a problem with the car, any message of this sort must include an irreversible instruction to enter the pits to rectify the problem or to retire the car."
diabolic, for the purists this is pure blasphemy.livinglikethathuh wrote:Isn't this getting out of hand?
The driver can't be fiddling with data pages to monitor temperatures, voltages and pressures through the car; that's the engineers' job.
The radio messages also give us insight on the strategies and also how much of a tech masterpiece these cars are.
I mean, Nico had a gearbox problem and was kinda stuck into 7th, and he flipped some switches and FIXED IT. How cool is that?
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Because the FIA is run by idiots!hollowBallistix wrote: If making them simpler was their intention, why not just limit engine modes to 2, race & qualifying, with the only other variable to adjust being brake balance, and that's it.
+1 for you!dans79 wrote:Because the FIA is run by idiots!hollowBallistix wrote: If making them simpler was their intention, why not just limit engine modes to 2, race & qualifying, with the only other variable to adjust being brake balance, and that's it.
Because engineers.markc wrote:+1 for you!dans79 wrote:Because the FIA is run by idiots!hollowBallistix wrote: If making them simpler was their intention, why not just limit engine modes to 2, race & qualifying, with the only other variable to adjust being brake balance, and that's it.
Why do the simple things when it can be super complex and cost lots...
I totally agree with you dans79 and Ballistix. PU's should be autonomous enough to "self fix" whatever problem appears. The steering wheel should only have these buttons:dans79 wrote:Because the FIA is run by idiots!hollowBallistix wrote: If making them simpler was their intention, why not just limit engine modes to 2, race & qualifying, with the only other variable to adjust being brake balance, and that's it.
Just yesterday, Alonso unabashedly explained why that is, and it's not the engines fault.ojlopez wrote:Pilots are focusing more on optimizing the PU and less on driving.
Personally I've got no problem with the complexity of the engines, or what's needed to maintain them. What irritates the **** out of me, is the governing bodies complete inability to write clean, concise rules, stick to them, or apply them consistently."I'm not at all happy for some things that are happening: we can never drive the cars to their real limit; we can never attack as much as we would like because the tires don't allow you to...
