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Originally Posted by 917_Langheck
RB tyre issue is due to two reasons - the car is designed to run in clean air, thus easier to drive smoothly saving tyres; all cars running in dirty air suffer greater tyre wear, that is why they don't run nose to tail unless the driver behind knows he can send the pass.
Electronic - software - starts are not permitted. As Ant explained in post-race the clutch is set at an initial point for the grid start and at lights out the slip is managed with the left lever set on the back of the steering wheel.
You can hear the car shudder under wheel spin Lando induced.
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Clutch bite point set up is super sensitive for finding optimum start stratergy and super critical on initial tyre grip.
So many variables to consider, tyre compound, track surface, weather, clutch wear, start position, engine map, and a long list of other considerations I don't know of
Combine this with practice makes perfect and not surprising Max smoked Lando
Have no experience of designing F1 steering wheel clutch levers to current rules but enjoyed a little success with previous rules
For 2011 season, after playing about with a steering wheel at my desk, had an eureka moment, not clever so don't have this happen too often
Designed a clutch release lever that if the driver spent enough time practicing using a training programme created by the Italian Olympic Authority, the clutch bite was optimised and he didn't crash into the back of anyone or was blocked ie if, if, if was pretty much guaranteed a 3x car length head start by the time he reached the 1st corner
RB got spy shots of our steering wheel, worked out how it worked, so asked the FIA for a technical clarification which stopped my design being used, bastards!!!!
No cheating going on, I'd exploited a loophole that the FIA shutdown, I redesigned it to be even quicker but by the time we got to the track RB had copied my design and the huge advantage wasn't as big as we had previously enjoyed
Technical clarifications are all part of the fun of the racing battles going on away from what the public see's or knows about