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[CookinFlat6]

People are confusing last year with the new regulation. There will not be multiple mappings available. At the Australian gp all teams must nominate ONE mapping, and that is ALL they can user for the whole year. They are allowed ONE wild card change. So the thought that a driver can change mapping's during a race is completely wrong - thanks to the supporters of reduced options for cost cutting

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Engine management modes, not engine maps per se, maps looking at ICE timing and preset torque delivery profiles and modes more about how the Ers/ICE integration is managed

[Jabberwocky]

Whenever I see ICE the boy racer in me sees In Car Entertainment. F1 with amps and subs that will never catch on.

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[What's Burning?]

F1 Fanatic has a really stright forward writeup with a couple of really surprising charts about fuel usage in the V8 era and the various circuits, as well as usage from last year. Even with Safety cars which lower the fuel consumption dramatically, the usage expected with these new engines is in some cases half of what was being used before.

Why the new fuel limit is one of 2014′s toughest rules

[spankyham]

I want to watch drivers pushing their cars to the limit racing each other for 300klms. It seems to me this year we will have drivers saving fuel and deliberately not racing each other in cars going slower than last year and way slower than ten years ago.

I know lots of you keep posting things that reassure me that the cars will match last year's speed in the races, and I hope you are right on that, but until I see it in a race it isn't real.

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[Hammer278]

People are confusing last year with the new regulation. There will not be multiple mappings available. At the Australian gp all teams must nominate ONE mapping, and that is ALL they can user for the whole year. They are allowed ONE wild card change. So the thought that a driver can change mapping's during a race is completely wrong - thanks to the supporters of reduced options for cost cutting

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Engine management modes, not engine maps per se, maps looking at ICE timing and preset torque delivery profiles and modes more about how the Ers/ICE integration is managed

Yep this is what I was trying to say...I thought engine mapping and management modes are correlated. But anyway, I'm sure they won't restrict engine management which is what the driver can control on his own.

[spankyham]

Perfect, our drivers can manage, conserve, calculate all they like. We just won't let them actually race .... grrrr

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[1Lemon]

People are confusing last year with the new regulation. There will not be multiple mappings available. At the Australian gp all teams must nominate ONE mapping, and that is ALL they can user for the whole year. They are allowed ONE wild card change. So the thought that a driver can change mapping's during a race is completely wrong - thanks to the supporters of reduced options for cost cutting

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That's not engine mappings. That's gear ratios they only get one of, and one change.

[spankyham]

People are confusing last year with the new regulation. There will not be multiple mappings available. At the Australian gp all teams must nominate ONE mapping, and that is ALL they can user for the whole year. They are allowed ONE wild card change. So the thought that a driver can change mapping's during a race is completely wrong - thanks to the supporters of reduced options for cost cutting

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That's not engine mappings. That's gear ratios they only get one of, and one change.

It's both

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[CookinFlat6]

People are confusing last year with the new regulation. There will not be multiple mappings available. At the Australian gp all teams must nominate ONE mapping, and that is ALL they can user for the whole year. They are allowed ONE wild card change. So the thought that a driver can change mapping's during a race is completely wrong - thanks to the supporters of reduced options for cost cutting

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Engine management modes, not engine maps per se, maps looking at ICE timing and preset torque delivery profiles and modes more about how the Ers/ICE integration is managed

Yep this is what I was trying to say...I thought engine mapping and management modes are correlated. But anyway, I'm sure they won't restrict engine management which is what the driver can control on his own.

Yes we can look at the engine management modes as equivalent to last year when the Kers was deployed or not and when fuel mixtures were adjusted, basically the power output turned up or down. Actually just to give Spanks some more nightmares I heard a rumor that the modes can be changed from the pit without the driver invollved

[stonemonkey]

...... Actually just to give Spanks some more nightmares I heard a rumor that the modes can be changed from the pit without the driver invollved

Spanky can get some sleep,

8.5.2 Pit to car telemetry is prohibited.

[spankyham]

Charlie Whiting confirms that all 3 engine manufacturers have already requested to make changes to their PT's after homologation.

Source = SkySports

[CookinFlat6]

They will all continue to make changes, as long as its for more reliable or cheaper parts, but the specs will not be changed. Ill bet that the first changes by Ferrari and Merc anyway will be to change parts for lighter ones as they will have started by focusing on reliability.

[spankyham]

Nearly 5 seconds slower than last year's FP1

Grrrr

[1Lemon]

Nearly 5 seconds slower than last year's FP1

Grrrr

Did you watch any of the streams, I never saw any cars hit max revs. They are still in semi-testing mode.

[CookinFlat6]

Most definitively it would be a fair assumption that Merc and Wiiliams were running at less than maximum and that RBR were running at max. Just by looking at how the cars behaved around the track. So its possible a few seconds are to come by quali.
However the FIA could have actually gone and killed of the sport. The sound is really not special enough to distinguish F1 as the top series and the whole thing looked like a GP2 event, apart from Mercs
And if in the actual races drivers are not racing mostly and there is too much confusion about who is doing what etc it could be hard to stop audiences leaving in droves