New F1 Idea. Poll, maybe?

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Originally Posted by Mark

They do this in NASCAR in fact. Just that instead of sensors they have someone on the radio telling them where the cars are around them.

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Spotters are pretty common in all oval major racing to be honest.

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Originally Posted by Fiero 5.7

Pino, how about a poll on this for fun.

My great idea:

My Nissan Titan pickup has a sonar or radar built into the rear bumper that activates when the truck is in reverse. When an object is in range it beeps and beeps faster as you get closer to the object and finally becomes a steady tone a few inches before impact. With mirror visibility being so bad in F1 it seems like a "U" shaped ring of sensors going from the driver's right blind side around the back of the car to the left blind side could be installed with lights on the steering wheel and a warning tone in the earphones. A driver hearing the tone could check his wheel, see a flashing light on the right side of the wheel and would know there was a car there and movement to that side might result in contact.

Might work pretty well.

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or they could simply make the minimum size of the mirrors effective

At those speeds by the time the sensor went off and the driver noticed it they would have already hit if they were going to.

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Originally Posted by Fiero 5.7

Some of them are only the best at bringing sponsorship money with them.

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well, the current crop of F1 drivers are all capable IMO, some of them won't set the world alight in F1 but we currently don't have any 'gentlemen drivers' a la lavaggi and deletraz, F1 boasts the world's best racing drivers and always has regardless of the pay drivers, who were in the worst equipment anyway so it didnt make much difference. we don't need such aids in F1, as it has no need in the current F1 world.