cfditya wrote:thanks a lot...so its tuning the engine electronically.....maybe using the ECUs....or maybe using a laptop as i have seen in many PIctures on the f1 grid......am i right???
Not tuning - adjusting already present sources to specific track, driver or weather. It is similar to chip tuning on passenger cars but ECU of F1 is not being tuned from some factory default to give more HP, more torque or to decrease fuel consumption but simply adjusted to specific demands. Even more, driver can choose from several different types of engine mapping during the race simply turning the knob on the steering wheel (SC drive mapping, warm up lap mapping, overtake mapping, cooling lap mapping, save fuel mapping etc).
Before two way telemetry was banned team could modify ECU from the pits, send data via radio signal and all driver had to do was to press acknowledge button in order to make engine run differently. Nowadays different types of mapping are preprogrammed and can't be modified but only selected by driver.
