Honda found a bug in the McLaren CPU?

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Originally Posted by Malllen

Well the FIA selected McLaren's tender for a CPU, and these problems occur when you monopolise the supply of a certain component for a sport.

The problem will probably be fixed soon.

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Besides the correcteness of the news or not, knowing how often teams have been caught bending the rules, cheating and so on, why not giving a third party the task to engeenier such device? I know the all the teams were equally asked to do it but why would you do that? After all, and that's what I find shocking, since when Formula 1 teams are experts in electronics?

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Originally Posted by mstillhere

Hi Breeze, thank you for the link. I actually registered to see if I could read the article. But besides reading the title of the article on the cover page, which is "that's how they were cheating at the start" I could not gain access to the article and read it.

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Autosprint doesn't have a web-site where you can read their articles, you need to buy the magazine for that :(

Has anybody got a link to a website where I can download the cheat codes for the McLaren ECU?? ;)

p.s. If Honda found it, they obviously haven't been making use of it based on their performance.

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Originally Posted by mstillhere

Hi Breeze, thank you for the link. I actually registered to see if I could read the article. But besides reading the title of the article on the cover page, which is "that's how they were cheating at the start" I could not gain access to the article and read it. but, according to this article the BUG exists and Honda found out about it. Their question is: Did McLAren know about it and are there any other bugs in the electronic system, only known by McLaren, that would give McLaren an unfair advantage over their rivals? I have a feeling that if this news is true it would be in the news media fairly soon otherwise it could be hushed and dealt with behind closed doors to avoid more bad publicity.

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What a dumb question.

Of course team intergrity macheater did not know. It was a rogue employee........ :beer:

No one at Macheat ever saw the instructions.... :beer:

No one at Macheat ever pushed the buttons...... :beer:

No other bugs exist at macheat....... :beer:

There are no emails....... :beer:

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Originally Posted by markabilly

What a dumb question.

Of course team intergrity macheater did not know. It was a rogue employee........

No one at Macheat ever saw the instructions.... :beer:

No one at Macheat ever pushed the buttons...... :beer:

No other bugs exist at macheat....... :beer:

There are no emails....... :beer:

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Originally Posted by mstillhere

I have my reservations about the trueness of this news...

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Originally Posted by mstillhere

I have a feeling that if this news is true it would be in the news media fairly soon otherwise it could be hushed and dealt with behind closed doors to avoid more bad publicity.

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Without there being any confirmation of this story as yet it does seem to have been put together following Jarno Trulli's recent comments (here & here) i.e. suspicions of some form of TC being used.

Before making statements, Honda must ensure that it applies to all cars. If the key combination only work out for Honda it would be great benefit to give them more chance challenging the title.

Never tell others, that's the first rule ;)

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

Without there being any confirmation of this story as yet it does seem to have been put together following Jarno Trulli's recent comments (here & here) i.e. suspicions of some form of TC being used.

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Where in the second article it says he is suspicious of TC being used?

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Originally Posted by DonJippo

Where in the second article it says he is suspicious of TC being used?

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"Looking at the behaviour of the Ferraris on the track is obviously depressing. They can brake wherever they want to but most of all they can accelerate wherever they want to, while I always have to be careful with getting on the power, which is not managed by traction control anymore."

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He certainly does not say they are using TC, but he is noting a clear difference between his Toyota and the Ferraris. Obviously, given the different levels of performance between the two teams in recent years that may simply be because Ferrari are doing a better job with the new regs. However, Jarno's comments do rather echo Senna's observations of the Benetton at the start of the 1994 season.

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

He certainly does not say they are using TC, but he is noting a clear difference between his Toyota and the Ferraris. Obviously, given the different levels of performance between the two teams in recent years that may simply be because Ferrari are doing a better job with the new regs. However, Jarno's comments do rather echo Senna's observations of the Benetton at the start of the 1994 season.

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And the liaison between the '94 Benetton and the '08 Ferrari being?!