Get rid of radio communication

[bontebempo]

In my many years of watching F1 one of the biggest problems i see are the use of radio comms to drivers. How great would it be if these were banned. Drivers could race their race with no interference from the team. Once on track its up to the drivers to determine the outcome of the race NOT the team. I appreciate its a team sport but we are all here to watch a race not drivers driving round a circuit keeping station.

Good for Vettel racing the guy in front and taking the win. Senna once said that if a driver see's a gap and does not take it he is not a racing driver. Amen to that.

[gloomyDAY]

No, what about safety issues? I'd rather there not be radio communication between team and driver, but not from the race director.

[truefan72]

yeah. that's the solution!
ridiculous

not to mention not even understanding the mitigation circumstances, or worse yet knowing them, but being deliberately ignorant and misquoting senna, who himself used radio and had team orders the entire time Berger was his teammate.

and while we are at it, lets get rid of those pesky pit wall boards too. A "real" driver should be able to know what's going on with his car, and read the fuel gauges and hydraulic systems, understand front wing damage, figure out his pit stop strategy, know which driver is closing in on him and what the gaps are, read the weather reports, etc, all while zooming around at 150mph
ridiculous

[Ranger]

In my many years of watching F1 one of the biggest problems i see are the use of radio comms to drivers. How great would it be if these were banned. Drivers could race their race with no interference from the team. Once on track its up to the drivers to determine the outcome of the race NOT the team. I appreciate its a team sport but we are all here to watch a race not drivers driving round a circuit keeping station.

Good for Vettel racing the guy in front and taking the win. Senna once said that if a driver see's a gap and does not take it he is not a racing driver. Amen to that.

Senna said it, so it is obviously the be-all-and-end-all of every argument ever. :\

[Mark]

They did ban them a few years ago (I forget when), along with all telemetry. However the teams sucessfully campaigned to have the ban overturned before the start of the season.

[AndyL]

Other forms of motorsport have no radios, so I don't buy the suggestions that it's impossible or too dangerous to get rid of them. But I don't really see what problem it would solve. It wouldn't prevent team orders. It would just mean the orders would be issued before the start of the race.

[bontebempo]

you are obviously an idiot. I think you should disappear up your own arse! And your forum name is truefan? hahaha more like dickhead72.

yeah. that's the solution!
ridiculous

not to mention not even understanding the mitigation circumstances, or worse yet knowing them, but being deliberately ignorant and misquoting senna, who himself used radio and had team orders the entire time Berger was his teammate.

and while we are at it, lets get rid of those pesky pit wall boards too. A "real" driver should be able to know what's going on with his car, and read the fuel gauges and hydraulic systems, understand front wing damage, figure out his pit stop strategy, know which driver is closing in on him and what the gaps are, read the weather reports, etc, all while zooming around at 150mph
ridiculous

[henners88]

you are obviously an idiot. I think you should disappear up your own arse! And your forum name is truefan? hahaha more like dickhead72.

I think this is the perfect example of how not to respond to someone. Thankfully we don't see much of this.

[henners88]

Other forms of motorsport have no radios, so I don't buy the suggestions that it's impossible or too dangerous to get rid of them. But I don't really see what problem it would solve. It wouldn't prevent team orders. It would just mean the orders would be issued before the start of the race.

That is true, but quite often orders are given after the race has changed to the unexpected. You will never stop a briefing from taking place before a race. On the other hand radio's are used by the drivers to improve their sector times and also for safety reasons when issues arise with the car to list just one example. I can't see them disappearing any time soon and don't think this is the solution.

[Knock-on]

Well, Bontebempo normally comes out with rubbish but she might have a point here.

You need telemetry as a driver might have a developing, potentially dangerous problem that he needs to box for. If a car has a serious problem, the team can tell Charlie who will get on the blower and order them in. The team will need to provide Charlie with an output of that Telemetry to prove they are not manipulating races.

A driver can have a Pit button that notifies a team that they need to box for tyres or a nose etc but apart from that, they rely on Pit Boards.

They can decide the strategy before the race but are limited in comms during the race. If a driver is running low on fuel, the team need to put it on a board in plain English. Standard boards and no codes.

This will hand a lot more decision making back to the driver and I think make it more 'real'.