address (AT) in (DOT) sig (ric zito) writes:
With Ric on this one. More driving, less like a nintendo with
'faster' and 'slower' buttons.

Phil
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"Home taping is killing big business profits. We left this side blank
so you can help." -- Dead Kennedys, written upon the B-side of tapes of
/In God We Trust, Inc./.

prodriver wrote:
There's nothing wrong with a standard ECU with a limited amount of
customisation available. What you want is for the teams to be able to do
what they used to do before TC was invented - ie. fuel maps, ignition
timing, any kind of complex engine management they like that leads to
increased power or better driveability in terms of power delivery, by
means of customising the ECU settings to suit their engine, whilst at
the same time being absolutely certain that they don't have the
possibility to implement a feedback loop.

Customer cars will do that far quicker than spec ECUs. And the GPMA was
threatening to do it even faster, but they backed down, for the time being.

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Phil

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Von Fourche wrote:
No - this has been on the agenda for ages. In fact the FIA wanted to
introduce it sooner but they were blocked by the teams bickering, and an
inability to forcibly introduce a spec ECU. They saw they had their
opportunity to introduce it in 2008 when the new Concorde agreement
comes into force, and since the teams eventually all signed up, now they
can do it. Since Ferrari were the first team to sign, you can take what
you want from their stance on the issue.

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Phil

http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/31307.html

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:19:54 +0100, Richard Miller
<richard (AT) seasalter0 (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote:


Nah, i agree though, he seems to be a more classical driver and not so
much reliant on all this techno gizmo. I think JPM himself might be
thinking now that he left a year or two too early.
Alonso on the other hand, with his love for understeer, might find
snap spins a new feature to combat when exiting turns. Kimi could also
find it hard, because he is very very early on the gas out of turns
and that habit will have to be curbed a bit.

In the end, all the older ones, including Button<g> will have to
relearn a bit of driving and meanwhile some surprising names may just
come to the top. The newbs who just came out of GP2 for instance, may
not be too conditioned into RPD(role playing driving) and that should
be good for them.

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Regards, Frank

a_Frank fajp (AT) notthis (DOT) optushome.com.au said:
never actually done anything! Jenson's first year had him racing F1 with the
push-button launch control!

I almost gave up on F1 when they had that stuff, and even more when it was
mentioned that the launch control was initiated by a photo-sensitive device
detecting the change of the lights, and not even the push-button genius of the
driver!

Am I happy that those days are over!

Who needs monkeys when the machines will do the job?

In message <llvr03h6v83ahmbekt40d2mvg00lc2sqdg (AT) 4ax (DOT) com>, a_Frank
<fajp (AT) notthis (DOT) optushome.com.au> writes
After our recent debate, I guessed that might provoke a reaction. :-)

Could be. He would have been *very* exciting to watch without TC.

Very likely.

OK, OK, I'll give you that one! But the same also applies to Webber.

So it could be good for Hamilton, Kubica, Kovalainen and young Piquet if
he joins us. That would make life extremely interesting.
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Richard Miller

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:32:34 -0400, Obsidian <obsidian00 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com>
wrote:

In 2000? Why did no-one protest such blatant cheating?

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Ian D

Phil Newnham wrote:


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Thor -- Mieres del Camino -- España

Ian Dalziel wrote:


There was never any risk of him learning how to push them...

a_Frank penned the following at 30/03/2007 10:40 AM:

Ran across this article about the ultimate, I would imagine, go-kart
experience and thought you might be interested?

LAS VEGAS | WEEKEND GETAWAYS
Bright lights & big engines rule in Las Vegas

VIDEO: In a city of thrills, our auto critic Dan Neil finds a racing
experience to scream for.

By Dan Neil, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 29, 2007

It's a special moment for every race driver. You tighten the belts, flip
down your visor and — quietly, in the privacy of your full-face helmet —
say the Shepard's Prayer. That's Alan Shepard, the astronaut: "Please,
Lord, don't let me screw up." Actually, I'm paraphrasing.

Sitting on the pit road at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, cinched into a
recently retired Formula One car, I've got good reason to be spiritual.
This is no ordinary race car — more like a hand grenade with a steering
wheel — and a significant driving error here could end in a six-figure
pile of carbon fiber.

Continues at:

http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-trw-formula1apr01

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Cheerie-vederci . . .

j a m e s

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton