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All joking aside, as much as we complain about drivers and rank them in order as to who belongs in F1 and who doesn't. Plus pick apart their instantaneous and "in the moment" reactions in minute detail (in slow motion the day after the race), I am generally amazed at how well the drivers do to not hit each other and race close to each other on a regular basis. So the good ones have a bit of "Jedi Knight" in them when it comes to just somehow "knowing" where the other car is.
The same goes for Indycar. Watching some of the in-car action such as at the recent Texas Indycar race... it is just unbelievable. But yet, they can only keep it up for so long and eventually there is a crash. It is inevitable. Richard |
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At least we don't have those outboard mirrors anymore
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Not a rule change, but Silverstone have requested that F2 and GP3 have their practice sessions moved to Thursday to help them with a tight schedule.
From the spectators' point of view, this appears to mean that you will be paying extra (in the future) to just watch road sweeping machines doing their thing and marshals leaning on brooms. There is no mention of extra races or track demonstrations. See: http://www.autosport.com/news/report...start-thursday or https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f...on-922016/?s=1 |
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Lapped drivers will now be shown the blue flag if a car on the lead lap is within 1.2sec. It was previously 1.0sec. This will be for the rest of 2017.
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Which was reduced from 1.5 seconds just at the start of this season. And it has been changed because of multiple complaints from race leading drivers from this season when they then attended at the last two drivers' briefings.
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https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f...nfused-922280/ "For next year we are planning to go one step softer, because it looks like the right decision. When we made the plan at the beginning of the year we could rely only on information provided by simulation." So yes, pleased now! |
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Pirelli have certainly raised their game this season, and getting rid of the hard tyre is another step forward
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not a rule change per say, but a suggestion coming out of the FIA that the SC could be replaced by an autonomous car in order to promote the new technology ostensibly in a way that would not detract from the show that is F1.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f...future-943208/ maybe a bit of a over reaction/first reaction type thing but i cannot help but feel the irony of this. human controlled cars get into accidents and a computer driven car is used to correct the situation...rather, how does this not take away from the spectacle of human against human racing? isnt showcasing this technology in moments where humans make mistakes inherently an advertisement of why humans should no longer be driving cars in the first place? anyways, this is a weird suggestion imo. hopefully its just some summer break nonsense! |
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On a more practical note, such a device world navigate via GPS presumably. Would the level of AI involved be sufficient to avoid debris or marshals within its prescribed route at a sufficient distance to either slow or deviate from that route, that the cars behind can react?
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I wonder would an autonomous safety car be able to dodge a F1 approaching at 200 mph from the rear?
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They need to make it idiot proof, otherwise they might as well get rid of the Safety bit of the Safety Car. It's something I can't see happening
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An autonomous safety car? It sounds like a complex solution for the basic problem to be solved. What is the purpose of the safety car? I ask seriously. I assume the primary function is to pick up the leader and enforce a maximum pace for the field. Could that not be enforced at the individual car level with much less automation? The other times I see the safety car is in wet weather red flag conditions in which the car is used to turn laps and gauge on track conditions. I can't see an autonomous car doing that unless it was very advanced. Much of that feedback is from the driver anyhow. I can see it now... "Sorry guys, robodriver says it's safe out there. Race restarts in five minutes!"
I like the idea of autonomous car development, but F1 safety car is the wrong place to experiment. Save this for an autonomous racing series to work out the kinks first. Richard |
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No, the FIA should not consider or try anything. It'll upset me as it will make it less like the old days.
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