Originally Posted by gomezz:
“On the fuel economy thing: MotoGP bikes have been running ECUs that automatically lean off the mix automatically to avoid running dry for several years.”
“On the fuel economy thing: MotoGP bikes have been running ECUs that automatically lean off the mix automatically to avoid running dry for several years.”
Well, yeah.
That's related to what I was saying earlier too, though.
If teams know this stuff is going to happen they can implement systems to mitigate the problems.
IIRC, the ECU a standardised, homologated, unit produced by McLaren. With reasonable notice (i.e. prior to the start of a season) I'm sure they could programme it to do something similar but, as things were at the start of this season, there'd be no call for it as the teams would probably prefer to have a race-engineer do the calculations manually and advise the driver accordingly.
Also, it's kind of ironic that this is being done in order to force the drivers to take control of more things for themselves when, in reality, it's actually likely to have the opposite effect by forcing teams to create automated systems which remove the burden of controlling stuff from the driver entirely.
Which takes me back to my original point; if all they're worried about is making the drivers look like puppets, why not just ask FOM to stop broadcasting those kind of messages?




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