Kev946 Posted January 10, 2008 Posted January 10, 2008 "Ferrari boss Jean Todt claimed on Monday that rivals McLaren will have an early advantage because they built the electronic system which all F1 teams must now use. The SECU (Standard Electronic Control Unit) produced by McLaren Electronic Systems is a major development for the new season, which starts on 16 March 16 in Melbourne. "We would have preferred that the single control unit for all F1 teams was built by another company, but we must accept that McLaren with Microsoft put forward the most economic proposal," said Todt. " I reckon the're all screwed if Microsoft have anything to do with it. Quote
AndySpak Posted January 10, 2008 Posted January 10, 2008 Ha ha ha! I can just hear Brundle now... "Well in the old days we never had to worry about the blue screen of Death..." Quote
Chris`I Posted January 10, 2008 Posted January 10, 2008 Ha ha ha! I can just hear Brundle now... "Well in the old days we never had to worry about the blue screen of Death..." +1 It appears that Hamilton has stalled on the grid, his car must have hibernated while it idled Quote
Kev946 Posted January 10, 2008 Author Posted January 10, 2008 Do you think they will have a ctrl, alt, delt buttons on the steering wheel... Quote
jim Posted January 10, 2008 Posted January 10, 2008 And will they be able to use (keyboard) shortcuts to cut their lap times? Quote
H5 Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 They'll still have an Indian guy on the end of the pit wall asking them if they've rebooted their system. Quote
stevie_350z Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 if they have any problems with it, they can call this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9JvIEsJcNE Quote
rmmackfc Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Wonder if it will be the usual Microsoft mentality of letting the users discover the bugs. Lets just hope they all don't crash .... boom boom Quote
jim Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 I presume it will be called the Beta car. Think I've just taken this a bit too far. Quote
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