Radios - Should they be outlawed?

For me personally I'd like to see them banned because it makes the driver's wisdom and choices a more significant part of what makes a WDC a WDC.

For the entertainment aspect of the sport in general leave them in.

 

And why would the teams want it now?

They may not be the only team that benefits from this sort of information but its clear that they rely on it. Other teams may be more than willing to take a small hit if it means hobbling MB.

 

yeah I saw it. IIRC they still at times make adjustments to the start settings during the formation lap, so they now have to completely set it up before that and if it still isn't right adjust at own risk etc.

 

Is there any way that even the most skilled driver will be able to make an informed choice of settings?
If not the rationale fails.

 

It's about balance. You can't have the cars drive themselves neither can we go back to Stone Age tech.
If F1 is the apogee of racing tech you need a strong case to ban any innovation.

 

I say enough of this direct connect push to talk crap. If they want to communicate with the pits and vice versa, let them do it like everyone else on the road today....cell phone and text.

Car broke down on the circuit, fine, call back to the pits. Just wait until you see Pastor text and drive. Text coming in before the hairpin.....pick up the celly and drive with your knees like everyone else! Just try to answer that Iphone 6+ with your nomex glove on, I dare you.... Lew Ham comes in, gets, four fresh soft tires, but is slow away because he was texting Nicole...

This, of course, would effectively ban the use of communications, unless the car is parked.

 

Radios are good.

 

too many rules,what does it matter if all the teams are doing the same thing,theres no advantage

 

Not really, unless he has a data cable plugged directly into his brain I'd imagine.

I suppose it depends on how much that Mclaren screen can tell you. Perhaps the next thing to be banned is the computer to suggest it to the driver after the formation lap has gone.

After that they really have to rely on getting a twitter feed in the car.

 

Option 2 for me.

 

Don't laugh. If radios are outlawed they'll have someone from the Psychic Friends Network in the pits.
Or smoke signals. Or a message wrapped around a Rock. Or...

 

No time to catch up with all the posts at this point.

Someone raised the safety issue; radios should be allowed to warn drivers of yellow flags, etc... Quite sensible comment.

In that case, we could have radio communications ONLY from race control to the drivers, with no interference from the teams.

I guess Charlie Witting could be the guy to announce yellow flags, pace car periods and so on...

But what we don't need is constant coaching from the pits to the drivers.

 

"We interrupt this race to bring you a public service announcement"

 

If that rule was in place we would never had "Felipe Baby." The radio communications are sometimes fun to listen to during the race; I would rather keep it. There are plenty of stuff to get rid of.

 

I picked option two.

It seems like certain drivers are using their teammates data a lot this year in order to improve lap times instead of doing the work themselves. To me it is a form of cheating and I liken it to copying the answers from the smart kid in front of you. Some are OK with this...hmmhmm Nico... but others are not.

There is also the issue of the drivers having enough to think about already. Less talk, more driving!

 

option 2 for me as well

driver coaching is not what i wana see in a race

but using a real phone could make things more interesting, could help struggling teams with more advertising opportunity

 

So it was in reaction to MB's success.