Friday, October 11, 2013

The secret of the winning Formula 1 team

Ever since the Montreal Grand Prix in June, rumors began to circulate that the winning Red Bull team was using some form of traction control.

A traction control system lets drivers get off the line faster and get on the power earlier out of corners as the computer optimizes the engine's output based on the amount of grip at the tires.

But traction control has been banned in F1 since 2008, and every racecar uses the same engine control unit and is inspected by F1 management at every race, making it impossible to use the outlawed system.

Enter the engineering conspiracy theories.

For more of the Wired story: wired.com



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