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They didn't seem very happy did they. I suspect the promoter had spent the last 24 hrs peeing in BE's ear and so he pulled him into the discussion (don't blame me, it the promoters whinging for another rule change - quad points in Texas next year!)
As for RBR running an old car downtown - added to the Seb won't qualify announcement - are they trying to make a point and embarrass someone one?
I still think the cars sound fantastic (not as loud, but a very interesting noise). There has been some terrific racing this year and there is every chance that this weekend will be a cracker.
As for RBR running an old car downtown - added to the Seb won't qualify announcement - are they trying to make a point and embarrass someone one?
I still think the cars sound fantastic (not as loud, but a very interesting noise). There has been some terrific racing this year and there is every chance that this weekend will be a cracker.
JonRB said:
I can easily believe that it's a TB of raw data. If you consider how many sensors are on the car and that they're probably sampling each many times a second, then it will mount up very quickly.
As Bruno pointed out, they won't have the bandwidth to transmit that in real time but after each session they'd download the raw data by plugging in.
Bruno seems pretty switched on technically.
On average, it's typically just over 1TB of data. The critical data is transmitted real-time back to the Hub at the back of the pit where it's usually viewed in graphical format and back at the control centre at the teams HQ. Secondary-level data is fed back to HQ and the rest of the data is downloaded afterwards and auto-analysed, highlighting specific areas that they are reviewing, dependent on the race and/or issues/concerns they may have about certain elements of the car.As Bruno pointed out, they won't have the bandwidth to transmit that in real time but after each session they'd download the raw data by plugging in.
Bruno seems pretty switched on technically.
I wrote an article about this a few years ago with/for one of the current teams. Must see if I can find it anywhere.
Kinky said:
On average, it's typically just over 1TB of data. The critical data is transmitted real-time back to the Hub at the back of the pit where it's usually viewed in graphical format and back at the control centre at the teams HQ. Secondary-level data is fed back to HQ and the rest of the data is downloaded afterwards and auto-analysed, highlighting specific areas that they are reviewing, dependent on the race and/or issues/concerns they may have about certain elements of the car.
I wrote an article about this a few years ago with/for one of the current teams. Must see if I can find it anywhere.
Interesting. Thanks for the insight. I wrote an article about this a few years ago with/for one of the current teams. Must see if I can find it anywhere.
That sounds completely plausible and reasonable.
Chrisgr31 said:
That interview is just plain garbage, no idea what Bernie thought he was doing. Obviously spouting rubbish and trying to be controversial and really not sure where it is going to get them
Bernie always has an agenda. He doesn't care if it's detrimental to the sport so long as it keeps his trotters in the trough. 
JonRB said:
Chrisgr31 said:
That interview is just plain garbage, no idea what Bernie thought he was doing. Obviously spouting rubbish and trying to be controversial and really not sure where it is going to get them
Bernie always has an agenda. He doesn't care if it's detrimental to the sport so long as it keeps his trotters in the trough. He really should go now, before it's too late.
Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 1st November 09:18
Just seen that Bernie interview.....
He has lost the f
king plot. He looks like doddling old man who should be in a care home worrying about his cocoa. To me he looks very ill, if you look at his bottom lip it's trembling all the time and he is hanging onto that Golf cart for dear life.
I said on another thread I was very worried about what might happen to the sport over the close season. I'm now very worried about what might happen to it over this weekend. Surely he can't think that he can run this sport with just the big five teams? I mean if you wanted to look on the dark side you could say;
Red Bull & Torro Rosso - they make fizzy drinks and it's a marketing exercise. If taking part in F1 doesn't make them sell fizzy drinks then they pull the plug.
Williams - bearly has enough cash to keep going now. Have nearly gone down the pan several times and personally I think the only reason they are around today is that Bernie loves Frank.
Mclaren - no title sponsor and have clearly been short of cash for a number of years. A few years ago Ron would have spent his way out of trouble by hiring the best designers, that is obviously no longer an option. Now he's in bed with Honda who have not the most consistent record of staying in F1 when times get tough and must be looking at the what's gone on in the last month thinking "what the juddering duck have we got ourselves into?"
So that only leaves two teams, Ferrari and Mercedes and no matter how Bernie & Sky might try to hype it, that's not really a sport.
As for the rumours about Audi coming in or even Fred & Lewis setting up their own teams, would you? If you were a CEO of a Fortune 500 company would you even think about suggesting that F1 was something you should be involved in as a sponsor? The board would think you were cuckoo for coco pops.
This morning we could be looking at the end game for our sport. Somebody needs to lean in, take the keys out of Bernies hands and say, "Sorry sir, we don't believe you are in fit condition to drive anymore,"
The above post probably makes no sense at all because it's two in the morning, I've got terrible insomnia and it's on my IPhone.
He has lost the f
king plot. He looks like doddling old man who should be in a care home worrying about his cocoa. To me he looks very ill, if you look at his bottom lip it's trembling all the time and he is hanging onto that Golf cart for dear life. I said on another thread I was very worried about what might happen to the sport over the close season. I'm now very worried about what might happen to it over this weekend. Surely he can't think that he can run this sport with just the big five teams? I mean if you wanted to look on the dark side you could say;
Red Bull & Torro Rosso - they make fizzy drinks and it's a marketing exercise. If taking part in F1 doesn't make them sell fizzy drinks then they pull the plug.
Williams - bearly has enough cash to keep going now. Have nearly gone down the pan several times and personally I think the only reason they are around today is that Bernie loves Frank.
Mclaren - no title sponsor and have clearly been short of cash for a number of years. A few years ago Ron would have spent his way out of trouble by hiring the best designers, that is obviously no longer an option. Now he's in bed with Honda who have not the most consistent record of staying in F1 when times get tough and must be looking at the what's gone on in the last month thinking "what the juddering duck have we got ourselves into?"
So that only leaves two teams, Ferrari and Mercedes and no matter how Bernie & Sky might try to hype it, that's not really a sport.
As for the rumours about Audi coming in or even Fred & Lewis setting up their own teams, would you? If you were a CEO of a Fortune 500 company would you even think about suggesting that F1 was something you should be involved in as a sponsor? The board would think you were cuckoo for coco pops.
This morning we could be looking at the end game for our sport. Somebody needs to lean in, take the keys out of Bernies hands and say, "Sorry sir, we don't believe you are in fit condition to drive anymore,"
The above post probably makes no sense at all because it's two in the morning, I've got terrible insomnia and it's on my IPhone.
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