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30 Jan 2011, 14:40 (Ref:2822725) | #1 | ||
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Demands on drivers 'unacceptable'
This appears to be a concern that Ferrari have voiced for the coming season..
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/89138 I was thinking about this while back and I agree I think they have a real point, way too many buttons to operate while driving a F1 car on the very limit.. What do you guys have to say on the subject... |
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well it'd clearly be fine if they were women because we can multitask..
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(i'll get my coat...) Only joking by the way I'm not one who agrees with much of what Bernie says these days, I am just pointing out what he said. Not agreeing with him...... For my part, I can still remember when we did have girls driving in domestic F1 and also in the World Drivers Championship (or whatever you want to call F1 pre 1981) Last edited by E.B; 30 Jan 2011 at 15:12. |
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I think they should revamp the regulations to include a passenger. The driver can then concentrate on driving, whilst the chap in the back can adjust the fuel mix, close the slot gap or remonstrate with an engineer who wants them to get out of Mr & Mrs Alonso's way.
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Super Hans! I could not agree with you more...
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Leaving the driver with a radio, a front wing switch, a rear wing switch and a KERS go faster button. Does the activation switch need to be on the steering wheel? and the brake bias is often a lever so doesn't have to be on the wheel either. |
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One more the cars are becoming way too complicated. I thought we had left that era behind? Traction control, launch control, Anti-lock brakes..Go back to more of a basic race car that can pass the car in front, and get on with the racing!
I appreciate the technology but it is getting get silly again.. |
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You don't have to press these buttons.
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That is true too Adam..
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The only thing is that the drivers will be pressured to use all the gismos available to them.. This is the way Luca di Montezemolo works...
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so hang on last year they were quite happy having drivers driving one handed whilst operating their vodafone ducts whilst this year the drivers will be overtasked by having to instead press for kers and floppy wings....
as adam says, no one says they have to use any buttons apart from the pit limiter button.... |
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think of the pressure on Massa though, he's going to have to operate all of these buttons whilst at the same time checking his mirrors constantly ready to jump out of Alonsos way
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Sounds like the Benetton 'Option 13' steering wheel (that the FIA showed could be used to cheat and incorporate launchand traction control at a time they were banned. Benetton got away with it because there was no way to prove it had been used ever, and technically it was not illegal to have the software there as long as you didnt use it.
As if the team that went on in later years, (with almost the same people) to deliberately have one of their cars deliberately crash to reap an undeserved win for the team might use something that could justify their brilliant starts with the click of a keyboard and then wipe the traces of its use. |
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Give them a manual stick shift as well, (which is what it should be anyway).
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They still have steering wheels?!!
What's needed is a driver with more fingers (Team Lotus are ideally based for this next leap in F1 evolution), or a steering wheel with less buttons. But I say all of this having just guided 44 tonnes of artic across a dark and winding mountain pass, whilst also having drunk a can of coke from one hand and having eaten a Mars bar from the other. In between times the CD needed changing, the phone needed answering, and the gears needed shifting . F1 drivers are real pussies! |
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Sorry, I thought driving a Formula 1 car was meant to be difficult, which is why the stars of the sport get paid the national debt of an African country and have all the sex they can eat. Whereas they should be mere ciphers for the glory of the greater Corporate God. Carry on.
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I may be a dinosaur but I would happily do away with all the buttons, radios and telemetry and have an H shift gear lever in the cockpit and oil and water gauges along with the rev counter. Technology bores me. I want to see a contest in its purest form, driver against driver. |
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