scarbs wrote:Dont forget the single ECU will affect corner entry stability more than Tc on the exit will.
bizadfar wrote:You can definitely control that with a combination of braking technique and mechanical setup.
Bizadfar, I think braking
technique and mechanical setup are a bit beside the point considering what's been lost. TC is a bit of a misnomer given what was achieved with the combination of components, software and functions; it became an integral way of consciously controlling the car in its entirety. Sam Michael indicated a while ago that if you divided the effects of losing TC between traction and controlled braking, the ratio would be around 40/60.
Since engine braking as such will not go anywhere, the driver will have to be much more conscious of the engine's torque curve. I'll be interested to see whether it'll become common practice for the drivers to blip the throttle in hard braking points as the rear begins to feel lively/restless. I could be wrong about this, but I believe teams began to seriously apply TC controlled engine braking around 2002-03 after which most cars have been remarkably stable in deceleration. Of course the car needs to be controllable in 2008 too, otherwise the races would be short lived, but I don't think merely modulating the pressure applied on the brake pedal in a specific way can compensate for TC to the
same effect. But the teams will devote some time investigating what might achieve that.
The "spygate" shed light on mechanically variable dynamic DF corresponding brake bias devices, those will help somewhat. And no doubt Ferrari's and McLaren's principle will be copied sooner rather than later all around, if not even improved on. I didn't think I'd be saying this so soon, but I miss TC already. There, it's out in the open. I have a suspicion that the "ban" has much more to do with the unidimensional economising drive and pandering to an imaginary popular will, rather than the technological, skills or racing quality of F1. I know there are differences of opinion about this, but I don't see TC as taking anything away from the driver.
In 2000, an automotine engineer by the delightful name of William ("Bill") Shoebotham from the U.S of A wrote a piece about the prospect of traction control in Formula One. If you care to read
Comprehensive Traction Control in F1 (link), I believe you'll find his insight and perception of the future, as it was in 2007 or so, pretty much spot on.
It's just some people countiue discussing the possibility to replace the gears as if that would change the ratios, though I marked the word "identical" 
