F1 Pre-Season Test Week 4: Barcelona 8th - 11th March

koolpc said:
Changing settings alters the setup which alters the driving challenge. Remove them and let the drivers 'drive'.
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That's a bit different from your initial point. Altering the driving challenge is surely part of driving. It is still the drivers ability and skill as a driver to adjust the car as they go along. It's not like when the TCS and ECU was programmed to sort the car out before the driver had to.

deuse said:
The year 1991 was the best year for F1. Take a look at Senna doing the pole lap at Monaco 91 AWESOME..

"How do you define real racing skills?" again look no further then Senna and the MP40 driving one handed most of the time.
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Do you think today is worse than Schumacher's heyday with regards to driving aids? My racing skills question was mainly to illustrate how the skills to drive in F1 have changed. I don't want this to turn into a "who is more skilled" derailment though. I just believe the drivers today are less reliant on gizmos than they have been during the Schumacher epoch.
 
gord said:
TCS was removed for 2008 onwards. The ECUs are standardised. What more can they reasonably do?
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koolpc said:
Changing settings alters the setup which alters the driving challenge. Remove them and let the drivers 'drive'.
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make it so a driver can miss a gear etc, dont modern f1 cars downshift automaticly to?
engine mappings need to go , fuel mixtures and everything else, brake bias changing should probably stay because its something a driver has to constantly be adjusting.

theres quite a lot of stuff that doesnt have to be there and its only purpose is to make everything easy.

look how east rookies find it these days, back in the 90s rookies would spin all over , lock up brakes , etc these days you are an idiot if u cant keep a car on a track without mistakes
 
A random name said:
3/10ths off the RB now, much better!
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The speed is okay, although still not good enough to challenge for pole, I'm more worried about the apparent lack of reliability and testing mileage. It looks like Button had to abort a race sim this morning.

At the last race here, Webber qualified almost a full second ahead of Button. If that difference is real it does represent a closing of the gap for McLaren.
 
Errmmm Perez has just gone nearly 1.5 secs clear of the field. WTF LOL?!

Even with taking weight out, that's some time..

Edit: Looks like he may have jumped a chicane which would make sense :p
 
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Day 1 Times

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[b]Pos 	Driver		Team			Time		Difference 	Laps[/b]
1.	Webber		Red Bull Racing		1:22.544			97
2.	Button		McLaren			1:22.910	+ 1.734		74
3.	Petrov		Lotus Renault GP	1:22.937	+ 1.761		27	
4.	Heidfeld	Lotus Renault GP	1:24.735	+ 3.559		20
5.	di Resta	Force India		1:25.039	+ 3.863		38	
6.	Valsecchi	Lotus F1		1:25.406	+ 4.230		50
7.	Buemi		Toro Rosso		1:26.004	+ 4.828		48
8.	Hulkenberg	Force India		1:26.030	+ 4.854		31
9.	Razia		Lotus F1		1:26.723	+ 5.547		29
10.	D'Ambrosio	Virgin Racing		1:32.060	+ 10.884	57
 
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