| ▲ | rurban 3 hours ago |
| What they didn't write is that a seperate company Ilmore provides the ECU's for all cars, for decades. Ilmore most likely caused this bug, and they simply turned off this buggy config setting. Ex-F1 technician |
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| ▲ | bayindirh 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's not Ilmore. It's Motion Applied (formerly McLaren Applied Technologies). However the software is provided by FIA, and the hardware design is also mandated by FIA. Things have been changed. |
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| ▲ | avs733 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That’s not correct. The standardized ecu was introduced as a cost savings and fairness measure in 2008. The contract was won by McLaren Applied (which was part of the same McLaren that is the current reigning champion but is now spun off and owned by private equity). The teams basically get an sdk and are largely responsible for the software the cars run at pretty much everything above the hardware layer of abstraction. As a weird piece of history, McLaren applied was not the original winner of the contract for the first standardized ecu in 2008. When it was announced, in 2006, Microsoft was. |
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| ▲ | bayindirh 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > When it was announced, in 2006, Microsoft was. I want to remind a Slashdot comment from that news entry: > Gentlemen, restart your engines. For original story, see https://slashdot.org/story/06/07/05/2357227/microsoft-to-sup... | |
| ▲ | uxhacker 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | So what does the ecu actually do? Can teams use any technology as an advantage? | | |
| ▲ | bayindirh 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Can teams use any technology as an advantage? Better engine design, for one. For example, if you have a truck division which is making very high end turbos for high endurance applications, you can build a "split turbo" with a very long yet precisely balanced shaft between the compressor and the turbine, and route the piping the most efficient way to reduce penalties of routing air via bendy pipes, and have a more powerful engine than others. This is what Mercedes did, back in the day. Ref: https://hackaday.com/2021/04/06/mercedes-split-turbo-was-a-g... | |
| ▲ | avs733 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Think raspberry pi on steroids that are on steroids that are on steroids. It is primarily the hardware to software interface. It runs every feature in the car that converts software code into an out out voltage to do a thing. It is also how everyone interfaces with the car - teams, drivers, f1 tv, and even the race track itself. https://f1chronicle.com/f1-standard-ecu-explained/ |
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