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[ardbeg]

How do the drivers keep the right speed during VSC? Is there a speed limiter or is there a calculation based on GPS data?

The rules say:
Under the VSC, drivers must reduce their speed and stay above a minimum time set by the FIA at least once in each marshalling sector. Stewards can impose penalties for any transgressions.

 

Sounds tricky to me, you'd like to hit those times to the tenth of a second. Reason I ask is because at the last VSC the drivers were still driving normal racing lines and weaved here and there to heat the tires, meaning they drove much bigger distances than they really had to. If they have a speed limit, a button on the wheel, they could earn many meters by simply driving the shortest, tightest, route around the track. No need for optimizing exit speed.

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[Marklar]

The teams are solving this in different ways: most of them have green (go faster) and red (go slower) arrows on the dashboard. Some teams are making two different acustic signals and some race engineers are given additional to that detailed instructions (stay positive).

[Marklar]

Regarding the control: they are getting delta times for certain sectors.

[registered]

It would be much easier to implement a speed limit like in the WEC with FCY. But it has to be done the F1 way take an already existing idea and make it more complicated.

[balmybaldwin]

Not to mention making it worse and virtually pointless - why they didn't do this the way WEC did it with slow zones I don't know. 

 

It ruins the racing, without the unpredictability of a SC, and doesn't allow marshalls anymore space to work.

 

If that was so hard for F1, then why not have just enforced the system we already had - double waved yellows mean slow down and be prepared to stop

[Kalmake]

It would be much easier to implement a speed limit like in the WEC with FCY. But it has to be done the F1 way take an already existing idea and make it more complicated.

F1 has used delta times under normal SC since 2010. That's the idea they took and tweaked. The timing systems may be somewhat complicated, but the actual use is really simple.

[Kalmake]

Slow zones are a hazard when they turn on and off.

 

They also disrupt the race order as some will pass them more times than others.

 

Full course speed limit cools the brakes as any braking will lose time. The speed limit might still be dangerously high at some accident zones, while delta times allow slowing down to walking pace without losing time overall.