Will the radio ban help Lewis?
Discussion
Dunit said:
Mind you Nico has greater mechanicle savvy to work it out himself so it could help him.
Evidence for this is?....Everyone excuses LH of being an unthinking drove-it-like-you-stole-it loon yet this year he regularly has been more economical and seems to have mastered the complex power units as well as most drivers so must have some mechanical intelligence?
Teams will just duct tape a mobile to the chassis and text the driver instructions :-)
scubadude said:
Dunit said:
Mind you Nico has greater mechanicle savvy to work it out himself so it could help him.
Evidence for this is?....Everyone excuses LH of being an unthinking drove-it-like-you-stole-it loon yet this year he regularly has been more economical and seems to have mastered the complex power units as well as most drivers so must have some mechanical intelligence?
Teams will just duct tape a mobile to the chassis and text the driver instructions :-)
Much like Clark and Hill used to be in the old days.
Dunit said:
Nico seems to spend alot of time with his engineers working out what does what and why. Where as Lewis could get a time out of a lawn mower!
Much like Clark and Hill used to be in the old days.
Hamilton also has developed the ability to make strategy calls for himself though, as at Monza last week when he attacked early against the team's suggestion.Much like Clark and Hill used to be in the old days.
gherkins said:
How will they stop them talking in code? Seems to difficult to police.
It'll be very difficult to police indeed. Unless they're going to ban "please switch to mixture 5 and save fuel" (where 'Mixture 5' actually means something similar to what Multi 21 did) then it's going to be pretty impossible.
gherkins said:
How will they stop them talking in code? Seems too difficult to police.
The website F1 fanatic made a good observation in their transcript of the radio transmissions from the Italian GP:Edited by gherkins on Thursday 11th September 14:17
"Drivers use a switch to report the state of their tyres to the team without giving that potentially valuable information over the radios.
And let us know how the tyres are on the HPP switch."
Daston said:
Is it a full radio ban? I thought they were just going to stop mechanics from telling the drivers how to drive.
Or ban telemetry/spec telemetry or go back to data acquisition ie. download onto laptop?Gaz. said:
Massa & Perez would be absolutely screwed. Massa & Smedley and then Vettel & Roquelin arguably pioneered this kind of partnership.
Cairon Pilbeam & Webber, Stella & Alonso had the balance just right, they give their charges a run down of the race plan, who they are racing now, who they'll be meeting on the way and who they expect to be racing in the closing stages, the strategy of their immediate rivals both fore and aft and anything they ought to be aware of such as the car 4 places up being on a harder tyre and likely to run long and regular weather updates/saftey car issues.
On the other end of the scale you have Mclaren with their drivers pulling teeth trying to extract any information from their engineers, even having ask what tyres they are going onto as they enter the pit lane.
Partnerships have been going on for years. You get drivers who go through different race engineers mainly because the relationship isn't quite right.Cairon Pilbeam & Webber, Stella & Alonso had the balance just right, they give their charges a run down of the race plan, who they are racing now, who they'll be meeting on the way and who they expect to be racing in the closing stages, the strategy of their immediate rivals both fore and aft and anything they ought to be aware of such as the car 4 places up being on a harder tyre and likely to run long and regular weather updates/saftey car issues.
On the other end of the scale you have Mclaren with their drivers pulling teeth trying to extract any information from their engineers, even having ask what tyres they are going onto as they enter the pit lane.
Bit unfair on McLaren. Lewis can be err a bit emotional. One minute he wants to be left alone or talk only on straights, then another moment he's complaining doesn't have enough info. Happened a lot last year. We the public are only privy to snippets of excerpts.
There's so much data available these days. Yesteryear intrateam rivalry involved playing mind games. Piquet and his engineer would relay false information in Williams debriefs then Mansell did the same to Piquet - Mansell kept the optimum active suspension setting to himself.
I hope that it also includes the electronic beeps that tell the driver when to lift, or shift gear.
I think that the use of these turns the driver into remote controlled robots, effectively left to just steer the car.
A fuel meter showing red to "back off" and green if "within target", should be the only information provided during a race. All other parameters, like target deltas, should only be discussed before the race.
Actual racing is hopefully about to get better, the WDC will be worth much more, whoever wins. It will separate the wheat from the chaff.
I think that the use of these turns the driver into remote controlled robots, effectively left to just steer the car.
A fuel meter showing red to "back off" and green if "within target", should be the only information provided during a race. All other parameters, like target deltas, should only be discussed before the race.
Actual racing is hopefully about to get better, the WDC will be worth much more, whoever wins. It will separate the wheat from the chaff.
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