Mr.2

Anyone seen this?

Some of the new rules for the 2003 F1 season:
- No driver aids (launch control, traction control, fully automatic gearboxes)
- Only 2 cars per weekend= no spare car.
- No 2 way telemitry
- No radio communication between the Pit and driver
- No working on cars between last qualifying except under extreme supervision of FIA officials...

These are only a few of the new rules. Over the next few years, untill 2006, they will be adding more rules. One of these is said to be one enigine per car for 6 races.

What do you think about it?

Sled

That'll make things interesting.

'90Formula350

I think thats gonna be IMPOSSIBLE ... no contact with pit and driver? WTF ? Ok so your crew chief is gonna see you comein down pit lane and when you stop you yell what you need? Oh yeah you gotta take off the helmet so they can hear ya ... AUTOMATIC's? NO WAY ... Formula 1 racin will definatly go down hill ...

MA-HALF-E

MGBRaceman

I believe that the Lack of driver aids will make the competition much more fierce and eliminate advantages due to higher quality tcs and lcs systems. I believe that will be interesting.

drifter

fully automatic trannys will make things GAY

Mr.2

There will be no fully auto gearboxes. How will they police things like traction control? I find it hard to believe that they can truly regulate something electronic like that.

drifter

OHHH sorry i read that wrong...in that case, KICKASS!!

tecnic1

F1 has been useing fully automatic gearboxes since barcalona 2001. not automatics as in like your mom's minivan, but as in electro-hydraulicaly controlled sequential gearboxes, like on the new M3s and ferrrari road cars.
They are going to regulate not having TC and LC and suck by going to a sealed, standard control ECU in 2004, but for 2003, it will be like the old days where there will be no real enforcement. The only way for them to know if a team is useing TC is for them to impound the ECU and search the programming to see if it is present. prior to 2001 though, ferrari had developed a program that allowed them to have traction control hidden in the code, and completely erase itself after the race was completed.
a big part of the enforcement will be that the cars will basicly be in parc ferme between the last session on saturday, and the race on sunday, meaning that the teams will only be able to work on them in a very controlled mannor, so idealy, whatever is loaded in the ECU for qualifying, and scrutineering sunday morning, will be loaded for the race, nothing more, nothing less.
as far as thinking this is going to level the playing field...no way. Ferrari will simply spend the money it would have spent developing electronics on something else, and if anything, ferrari will have more money then anyone else to develop the car around the rule changes, and will only get better.

tecnic1

oh, and radios.....man was racing automobiles for years with out radios just fine.....that's what pit boards are for.