Honda found a bug in the McLaren CPU?

Sorry guys,
I am searching the net like crazy, looking for more info about this subject. Despite my efforts, I have not found one single piece of information (except for that ONE Italian magazine). This is frustrating! How can it be that they talk about MS involved with motorcycles and nobody has heard anything about Honda and the ECU"s glitch? There is nothing on the Honda, Ferrari and McLAren web sites. Nothing on the FIA and so on.....I am starting to believe that this is just a rumour....... :(

:s hock: A rumour ? How dare they!!!

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Originally Posted by mstillhere

o.....I am starting to believe that this is just a rumour....... :(

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Did you really think that it was true?

I mean, how stupid would McLaren have to be to put illegal launch control in their ECU and then give it to all the other teams?

McLaren weren't all that great at getting off the line in '07 anyway. Sure, they were better than Ferrari at the start of the year but by the end of the year the Reds were equal, if not better. Even at the start of the year the McLaren's weren't getting starts like the Renault's did a few seasons ago.

This one stinks of journalistic nonsense made up by bored journo's in the offseason.

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Originally Posted by Hawkmoon

Did you really think that it was true?

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Well the thing is that anything that has to do with electronics and softwares IMO can be altered/hacked. I am truly clueless on why the FIA would open this can of worms. I think that it's very naive to think that no one would dare messing with this very important and sensitive software one way or an other. It would require constant monitoring and checking from the FIA to ensure compliance of all the teams and still, with a very good hacker, I think that no FIA technician can really find out what's going on. So that's why I was saying a little voice in my head was screaming that all this could very well be true, although to date there is no official confirmation. Darn!!! :)

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Originally Posted by maxu05

If McClaren has designed the software, how hard would it be to create cheats ? Many of you have played PS2/PS3/Gamebox/computer games etc, and there are cheats available if you type in the right code. What is stopping McClaren from designing cheats into the system that only they can decode ?

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MES hasn't designed the software, Microsoft has. MES is supplying the hardware - the ECU itself and ensuring it processes the software. This like blaming Dell for Excel having a bug that enables you to do something.

How did Honda find this 'glitch', by pressing a combination of buttons? if so, then I want that job. Also Honda have an extra Button that the other teams don't have (Jenson). Why didn't someone phone the Helpdesk at Mclaren? I can see them all now on the grid at Melbourne on their mobiles to Mclaren HQ all being told "have you tried switching it off and on again"

Autosprint is the motor-racing equivalent of Bild.

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Originally Posted by tamburello

Autosprint is the motor-racing equivalent of Bild.

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Noted

Gday all - just joined and first post.

This story has got to be bull****e. There is simply no way the FIA would allow the ECU to contain precompiled software for this exact reason.

I would imagine the FIA ihas a copy of the code, including all updates, then complies it with encrytion before sending it back to the ECU manufacturer for uploading into the ECU hardware. They may even do this themselves.

Secondly, not even McLaren would be so dumb to try to hide "cheat" codes - way too much to lose after last year! Another scandle like that would most certainly sink the company...

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Originally Posted by mgf909

Gday all - just joined and first post.

This story has got to be bull****e. There is simply no way the FIA would allow the ECU to contain precompiled software for this exact reason.

I would imagine the FIA ihas a copy of the code, including all updates, then complies it with encrytion before sending it back to the ECU manufacturer for uploading into the ECU hardware. They may even do this themselves.

Secondly, not even McLaren would be so dumb to try to hide "cheat" codes - way too much to lose after last year! Another scandle like that would most certainly sink the company...

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You're underestimating how McLaren's dumbness! After last season I won't be surprised by anything coming from them cheats and liars.