News Details

Video: Mercedes reveals true cause of Melbourne error

Mercedes has revealed that a bug in its software caused the team to lose out to Ferrari in Sunday's Australian Grand Prix. While it was initially thought that the team's failure to put Lewis Hamilton back ahead of Sebastian Vettel when the German pitted under the Virtual Safety Car (VSC) was down to a problem with its race strategy software, it has now been revealed that in fact the problem was due to an offline tool the team uses to calculate delta times between those cars pitting and those remaining on track. 'The issue isn't really with the race strategy software that we use,' explains Andrew Shovlin, the German team's trackside engineering director, in the latest edition of its Pure...
Full Story »
6y ago from Pitpass.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Early Car Damage Caused Verstappen Woes During...

Max Verstappen felt damage to his RB14 caused his early spin and...

Race Results – 2018 Australian Grand Prix

Australian Grand Prix – Here is the complete classification from...
6y ago from FormulaSpy.com

The post-race debrief: Australian Grand Prix

Australian Grand Prix – Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel succeeded in...
6y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Hamilton leaves Ferrari behind to take Australian pole

Lewis Hamilton has continued where he left off with an impressive run to...
6y ago from F1Technical.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

What to expect from Honda in the 2025 MotoGP season

As the 2025 MotoGP season approaches, a new era is dawning for Honda, who...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Andretti Global shows off new liveries for 2025...

Andretti Global has revealed a trio of new liveries for the team’s cars...

Penske President Tim Cindric to reduce leadership role

Team Penske announced on Friday afternoon that long-time President Tim...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsenal: Three free agents Mikel Arteta could sign...

Sports Mole looks at three free agents that Arsenal could sign after...
44m ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Goal machine wants PL transfer, Man United have major...

Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe may not have any final say on...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Report: Arsenal among clubs to make offer for Real...

Real Madrid forward Endrick was reportedly targeted by a long list of...
2h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.