Wonder what it would take for a sensor to be past the white line and then within each car? But I can't help but think it would be too difficult to tag each car so the sensor goes off and goes to the display in car, the crew, and the FIA.
F1 2023 Discussion
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It shouldn't be that hard in all reality. Farmers can plant crops within 1-2" with RTK and I know they can do similar tolerances with construction equipment.
You put two receivers on the car so you can always establish the centerline of the car, live data transmission back to the race stewards, have a GPS map of the track limits, know the offsets of the car width, throw in a 2" margin of error (or similar), some automatic reporting and this issue is taken care of. It's probably a little more involved then that, but it's not like the FIA or F1 is hurting for money.
As far as the track, saw a YouTube video where they brought up the issue is that some of the other series (MotoGP) don't want gravel traps that close. Personally, I think that the arguably best drivers in the world should be able to keep it between the white lines. Don't want a penalty? Don't break the rules.
I normally agree with the best drivers thing. However, this appears to be a different scenario. It was not just one or two drivers. Not one driver was able to stay in the lines and basically half the field did it so many times they got multiple penalties.
The problem is they cant always see the white lines. At least not well enough to tell if they were 1 inch over. Look up some helmet cam footage. They cant see the bottom of their tires.
2” margin of error kind of a lot in this circumstance though. The easy answer, outside of reconfiguring the track, is probably just more stewards to handle the reports faster.
Have you seen what Ferrari has done since Jean Todt left? They have been anything between clowns and a complete disaster since he left. They won the constructors championship with Kimi and Felipe Massa in 2008 but that's pretty much it.
Right as I sent that I was like wait a minute… what has Ferrari done except fail by their standards
Checo has got to be tanking in purpose, right?
Like his future is already set and he knows it???? No way he should be this bad week after week in quali
Like his future is already set and he knows it???? No way he should be this bad week after week in quali
Something is up because it makes no sense that one car is easily getting pole and the other struggles so bad. Max is an exceptional driver, but Perez is making the Red Bull look like a turd of a car. There is no way Max is that good to put a turd on pole 5 races in a row. I doubt Perez is tanking, unless he wants out of F1, but wow, he is bad right now.
No way Checo keeps his seat if he keeps this up. The only way I could see it is Red Bull waiting a year so they can buy out Lando’s contract or something like that.
While i’m unsure of the specifics, but isnt Albon still tied to a RB contract? If so, wouldnt it make sense for them to give him another crack at it with having more experience now, and how well hes been performing?
I think you might be right. He is definitely driving better than Perez right now
I think RB strategy ****** him today, no idea why they wanted to be first in that line. The longer they waited to leave the garage the better they did on the last run, which was the only one that mattered.
He still still should have made it but this one is the one I’d put least on him.
He still still should have made it but this one is the one I’d put least on him.
Heck of a drive by Lando, he earned that podium between his hot start and then strong finish, holding off lewis … and in other news, another Ferrari engine blows up
Those McLaren upgrades may just be for real.
