Team radio ban

[zako85]

Supposedly, the rules did not change. The interpretation did.

[Mia 01]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report...337.1406484149

No coded messages are alouwed!!

[Koz]

Idiots. How can people in the FIA be so stupid?

http://www.autosport.com/news/report...337.1406484149

No coded messages are alouwed!!

So is Italian still allowed? Will there be a special steward who understands Italian listening to Alonso's feed to make sure he isn't being told something naughty?

[Tazio]

Will there be a special steward who understands Italian listening to Alonso's feed to make sure he isn't being told something naughty?

Yup......According to my sources the FIA have already secured the services of:

[schmenke]

New FIA Technical Regulations announced today.
Henceforth all cars are to be equipped with the following FIA approved communication device:

[airshifter]

They should know better. If they have to the teams will hire fans to change shirts to send a signal. If a drink cup flies at turn 2 you can use overtake. If the flag bounces up and down you need to watch fuel. On so on, and so on.

It's about as stupid IMO as thinking team orders wouldn't take place when they were banned.

[AndyL]

A lot of the information the drivers get from the engineers could be made available automatically on the steering wheel display I think. I'm imagining the MS Office Clippy character popping up on the dashboard and saying "It looks like your rear tyres are getting a bit hot after turn 1. Try not to spin the wheels so much!"

[truefan72]

Idiots. How can people in the FIA be so stupid?



So is Italian still allowed? Will there be a special steward who understands Italian listening to Alonso's feed to make sure he isn't being told something naughty?

yup

FIA shooting themselves in the foot again

It simply is too tough to regulate, and only invites post race protests and confusion amongst drivers and teams, as well as unnecessary speculation from media

I find it particularly annoying when guys like A.Davidson pushed for this change, as if he never benefitted from the same rules in F1 and lemans cars, which btw are different than F1 being endurance races, etc.

Yes, i find some of those messages a bit too instructional, but given the way F1 is today and the ridiculous amounts of data and settings, especially on the steering wheel etc. teams should be very well allowed to tell their drivers what they please.

Each situation is different and each driver has his comfort level of communication that he has probably established with his RE already.
I for one have no problem with a team letting their driver know where they are losing time or gaining time, and if a car is set up a certain way, what to do to increase it's potential or minimize the deficiency.
So this new edict is completely unnecessary and serves no real purpose.
I guess after spending all that money and generating all that interest on radio communication throughout the race, they now want to limit that interesting component of the broadcast and shoot themselves in the foot. BTW a problem they themselves created as they get to choose which radio calls are delivered to the live feed.

[Doc Austin]

What will happen eventually is that there will be a central computer on the car that monitors everything, and it will be in voice communication with the driver. The car tells him when to pit, when to push and when to conserve. It will make the drivers crazy.

I say make them use the radios strictly for safety and emergency communications only, and have them use an old fashioned pit board for everything else.

[N4D13]

I say make them use the radios strictly for safety and emergency communications only, and have them use an old fashioned pit board for everything else.

Yet at the end of the day, if you allow having information on the pitboards, you could end up with technical information being passed on to the drivers (e.g., use this or that engine map or watch your tyre deg). Not that I'm against the change that you are proposing, but remember that this was not the FIA's intention.