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27th June 2005, 23:27 | #1 |
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| THG At The Races The advanced state of F1 cars is shown most clearly by a "memory" function that is used by most F1 teams. As Sauber's Rampf explained, a driver can store a complex car setting, including differential, traction control, engine braking as well as wing settings for each curve of the track. Once such a setting is stored, sensors in the car are able to recognize that curve the next time the car comes around. Electronics monitor certain data such as G-force levels to identify a specific curve and then apply stored settings instantly. http://www.tomshardware.com/business...627/index.html
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28th June 2005, 00:05 | #2 |
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| MAD, that is all I can say. Customised settings for each bend? Wouldn't they get better results by improving the engine? |
29th June 2005, 10:43 | #4 |
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| what makes you think they don't? this is just another way of gaining a few milliseconds per round. I wonder what happens if they hit a kerbstone though :grin: |
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29th June 2005, 12:00 | #6 |
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| right, forgot about that, but I was thinking of a single event I once saw on TV (pole position runs) and in a certain curve they almost always hit it way to hard at a bad angle making the cars bump sky high. |
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