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@brakeboosted Maybe, I’m not yet as certain as you. I could see a scenario where it arose from simulations that didn’t include a driver having to react to a snap mid-corner and lifting off

@dantmuk I can't think of anything at this moment, but I am certain they have a very good and well-thought-out reason as to why it's near full throttle.

A lot of things are being put under the "deployment issue" umbrella, and it's unsurprising that not everyone understands how complicated the power demand rules are. This isn't an "issue" in the usual sense of the word, but rather oddities in the regulations being exposed by the near 50/50 power split. Sometimes, the way the driver uses the throttle pedal induces "deployment issues." We already saw what happened when a moment that usually proves inconsequential ruined Leclerc's SQ3 lap in China. In this case, Hadjar, who is lifting through 130R to manage tyres, is affected by the quirks of the power demand rules. The MGU-K must give at least 200 kW of electrical power for 1 second when he goes from lifting to beyond 98% throttle. Throttle position >98% is defined as the power-limited pending period. What accentuates the issues for Isack here, is that from 130R to Casio Triangle - where cars typically harvest when not attacking - instead of recovering energy, it spends an extra couple seconds deploying it. He is left completely exposed on the subsequent straight because it used energy when it was supposed to recover it. It's easy to fix in this case. Don't lift on the next laps. Where it becomes tricky is when the driver uses the throttle in a way that doesn't necessarily help the "issue" due to their driving habits, or trying to push a little harder at some points. It's precisely this thats frustrating so many drivers. Because they don't really know they're doing something "wrong." The reason its become such a prominent aspect is because of the need to have 100% optimal deployment all the time, the product of a 50/50 power split.

@NotFifthGear Does WEC+ have an app for smart TV? If not those series just got much less convenient to watch

Not a great move. I don't think ELMS and Le Mans Cup alone could move the WEC+ signup numbers much and this is only going to make the series less accessible.

@lace_strol 1st 2 races of 2014 had loads of retirements and those PUs ended up the most reliable of all time. People need to chill out

The "glory days" often had more retirements + it's race 2 of a new regulation cycle

@LukeCrane88 @formula_tiger These complaints are either exactly the same, or even slightly improved, compared to the previous regs…

@formula_tiger There were 4 cars up the front and although there were lots of overtakes, because of the regulations you can predict them happening to the exact part of the track. Maybe I have been watching too long and I’m just an old hack.

Well I did wake up for the race, it was awful as a spectacle. But fair play to Kimi! 19 years old & winning an F1 race. Some amazing drivers have never achieved that.

@F1JayyUK It’s race 2, chill out. Early races in 2014 had poor reliability too and those PU regs ended up the most reliable of all time…. They will get there

7 cars retire through reliability and issues. Great job with these regulations lads.

Sorry how anyone can say the quality of the racing was not much improved from last year is beyond me. Even if you didn’t like last week, this one was significantly better. Far more of the overtakes were in corners / under braking compared to Australia #ChineseGP #f1

@thomasmaheronf1 Will it be built in time though?

New renders of Madrid's Madring, the venue for this year's Spanish Grand Prix, have just landed. Quite liking the look of 'La Monumental', which is the semi-circular bullring corner. At 550-metres long and a 24 per cent banking, drivers will spend "six seconds" going through the corner. #F1 #SpanishGP

Legibility trade off is 100% worth it. Going to the thousandth is not valuable insight during a race. Quali, absolutely - that's a different story altogether. Race engineers round gap information for their drivers to the nearest tenth, not thousandth. If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for us. People just don't like change. 🤷‍♂️

@GeorgiArsov1 @wearetherace No. I have been watching F1 for over 20 years, and never watched DTS. I can promise you, you don’t need to worry about my fan credentials.

@dantmuk @wearetherace Did you start watching F1 after seeing Drive to survive?

Don't know what you have until it's gone 😔

@16charloscar81 @wearetherace Sure but the onboard is the only way you’ll be able to actually understand why the crucial hundredth was gained or lost! Well enjoy 😊

@16charloscar81 @wearetherace …thousandths tower? If you’re that hyperofocused ob the minute details of that battle, pull up an onboard channel.

@16charloscar81 @wearetherace Yes I think this is kind of my point, gaps will move in either direction by fractions in every corner for all kinds of reasons. I would argue in your example the new tower would have started at 1.6, briefly gone to 1.5 then back to 1.6. Can you really infer any more from the…

@vic6871 @16charloscar81 @wearetherace No that’s a gap of 0.098s. In your example all that’s telling me either way is that they are practically nose to tail and an overtake may happen soon. If the gap was bigger, a difference of +/- < 0.1 really doesn’t matter. Just my opinion.

@dantmuk @16charloscar81 @wearetherace You're forgetting that 0.351 and 0.449 are treated as 0.4 and that's a gap of 1 second. It does matter the number of decimal places At least let them use 2 at minimum

@K7L3_ @wearetherace Yep, clearly I’m in the minority and it should come back. It is still irrelevant though.

@dantmuk @wearetherace With the amount of people that want it back, it doesn't matter if you think it's irrelevant.

@Tarunv265 @wearetherace The update frequency is the same, yeah I get you can’t have it continuously confirmed that it’s not broken 🙈 on the 2nd point can you really understand any more? You’re just hyperfocussing on noise surely

@dantmuk @wearetherace You know exactly when the gaps update, you can also understand more accurately how quickly the gap is increasing/decreasing over smaller sample size of laps

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