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Originally Posted by Chatters
Don't forget too that the Mercs have a fly-by-wire throttle, and that seemed to be causing them a fair few problems, which you can safely say is a teething issue. How many race cars these days use a fly-by-wire throttle system? Maybe one of the more knowledgeable members among us may be able to fill answer that one for me.
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I reckon the root cause of all these problems is a cooling one, the pedal was getting way to hot number one, also I noticed that on every pitstop they had a guy blowing air into the radiator for as long as possible after changing the tyre (and didn't look like he was trying to clear out the ducts) and also noticed on the main straight the merc ducting out to clean air more than once.. If the pedal was getting to 90*+ I hate to know what under bonnet temps ended up at and how reliable some electronic sensors are at those temps vs a cable
Also I have no doubt the Mercs and Nissans are down on power vs the old dinosaur 2vers..