Personally, I agree with you. But we seem to be firmly in the minority if the poll is to be believed!..... Surprisingly, to me anyway, the majority want it left completely "open" & coaching permitted! Cheers, Ian
Not going to be tolerated according to Charlie. From the Autosport article quoted in the other thread; Now, what I can see them doing is arranging for, eg, tire temps to be displayed on the wheel. Cheers, Ian FIA will not allow coded messages in F1 - AUTOSPORT
I would have no problem with this, except look at a modern F1 wheels and I bet you those guys can barely process any more information. Unless they start taking away some of those knobs & wheels.
Agreed! As I think Sammy said a while back, that they're able to drive as quickly as they do while BS'ing on the radio and tweaking knobs all the time is staggering! Wasn't it Kimi that admitted he crashed (his Lotus?) a while back because he was messing with the knobs rather than paying attention?!...... Cheers, Ian
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so now the FIA will have 22 "code-talkers" that will listen to each car/pit radio recording after the race or during? Will teams have to provide FIA a list of all their codes and names for things? If they don't catch it during a live radio transmission, will we have race results changing due to penalties the week AFTER a race? having good rules is one thing, but having unenforceable rules is different!
Charlie will sort this and those who are caught will be warned initially I think, then next time the penalty will apply. If it changes a race result so be it. Other rules have changed race outcomes so what is the big problem with this. Other than its mid season or past and now its applied, yes, thats not ideal. Beyond that the teams have smart people and well paid drivers to work this out and simply race.
That's exactly the plan - during the race. And if they hear anything they don't like they'll immediately pass it on to the stewards who will most likely issue a drive through according to the reports. Everything is already recorded & time stamped etc and they're saying it's 'zero tolerance'. But, they're also meeting in Singapore on Thursday to hash out the details. Cheers, Ian
It's not that hard to stop any subterfuge from taking place - Simply inform the Teams that anyone caught using coded messages to circumvent the rules will be disqualified from the season and will face an F1 ban! Basically tell them: "If you can't abide by our rules then will not race in our series!" The trick is to make the penalty so harsh that it's simply not worth trying it!
"oo-yay eed-nay oo-tay it-pay ext-nay ap-lay. Ox-bay ext-nay ap-lay. Eez-play onfirm-cay." "Ewis-lay, Ico-nay is aster-fay an-thay oo-yay. Eez-play iv-gay (sorry) ay-way. Ank-thay oo-yay, Ewis-lay." "Leave me alone I know what to do!"
All the information in those two sentences are not banned information anyway so why would a team bother putting that message out? And even if it did contain banned information, putting it like that is so unsubtle that it will instantly bring you under suspicion of breaching the rules (i.e. cheating!), and cause your team a massive headache having to explain what you meant, why it was put out that way, and probably result in even closer scrutiny of all your future radio transmissions.
What if teams _aren't_ sending covert messages but end up accused anyway? What can they do to establish their innocence? For any statement made over the radio there are an infinite number of possible alternate meanings. Enforcing this naively-conceived rule by a reign of terror is only going to make matters worse.
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