To overly simplify with another example. Suppose you are on the highway with max speed 120 kph and you know the cops are measuring at point A, B, C, ... You could easilly be driving at an average of 200kph, you just have to slow down at point A, B, C, ... and speed up between those points. I'm not saying they are doing it all the time, but they could be doing it when they need it. On average, it wouldn't be detectable.thomin wrote:I'm not sure I completely get your point but I don't think you can cheat this way. If you could the FIA wouldn't have found out. It's all about the peaks in fuel flow. The FIA has provided a metric to measure those. Red Bull decided that this metric doesn't suit them and used their own which gave them an advantage.Jef Patat wrote:I'm wondering if RB is playing smart ass again. I'm quite convinced the sensor is fine. I just can't believe RB would mount back a sensor they think is faulty. If I'd doubt the sensor was faulty and I'd the chance to replace it I'd just do that. Besides that I just can't image that many sensors are faulty. It can always happen, but chances are small.
With my limited knowledge and from what I've read I don't think it is that hard to fraud with the system. From what I've read the sensor is able to measure at 100 Hz and FIA is using a lowpass filter at 5 Hz. This is in my opinion is a very low frequency to if the primary goal is to prevent the peak usage. I don't know about the details of the measuring but there are two possibilities. Either the sampling is done by the same system or it is done by a different system. Knowing that the teams have access to the data they must be able to correlate that with their own system easilly. The trick is to have the flow happen at a higher frequency than the sampling in such a way that the FIA measurement is aliasing.
to draw a parallel with somthing everybody knows: the backspinning wheel of a filmed driving car. You know the FIA is filming at 24Hz. If you drive at the correct speed they'll think you stand still, or even drive backwards.
The better the correlation the easier to fraud. If the correlation is worse it just means you can fraud less, for a smaller period of time, but you can still do it. IMHO the only requirement is to be able to modulate the flow faster than 100Hz, which probably is not impossible.
Any thoughts pro contra this idea?