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17 Feb 2001, 10:21 (Ref:65201)
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I heard an extraordinary thing this week - Martin Schanche has pinned the poor performance of his Division 1 ERC Opel Astra on a computer virus he has uncovered in the engine management system.
Has anyone else heard anything about this? And is this a first in motor sport, do you suppose? |
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20 Feb 2001, 17:22 (Ref:65712)
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Not a clue. Was it the Kournikova virus perhaps?
 Martin, you naughty, naughty man! 
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11 Mar 2001, 19:59 (Ref:70166)
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That's okay... just as long as he didn't do his infamous dance in front of the other competitors racing...
 But seriously, could it really have been a virus, or simply a glitch in the system? The latter would be my guess. |
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15 Mar 2001, 00:16 (Ref:71272)
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Tim, did you hear this (like me) on one of the Sky Sports Motorsports programmes?
All it said was exactly what Tim says. I assumed at the time that the laptop that the management codes were adjusted on had a nasty floating around on its harddrive, and was passed on to the Astra's ECU. Surely they wouldn't use the same programming language, would they? I reckon it means the information that should have been loaded from the host PC was corrupt, and was disadvantaged. I'll see if I can find more. 
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15 Mar 2001, 20:00 (Ref:71455)
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Let that be a lesson to you, Sparky, i setting up Chris' very high-tech Mini...
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15 Mar 2001, 21:36 (Ref:71488)
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You are, of course, quite right Dan - I had to nip out today and get a new operating system for my biggest hammer...
I was running Hammer v3.01, but I couldn't get it to hit anything without crashing...
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