Teams unhappy with the McLaren Electronic Systems standard ECU

[ioan]

As we all know for next year the FIA mandates the use of a standard ECU.
The tender for the production of this standard piece of electronics has been won by McLaren Electronic Systems.
After testing it the teams have found it to be no good, apparently they all had serious problems with it, and one team couldn't even get their engine started using the MES ECU.

We shouldn't forget that this ECU is produced in collaboration with Microsoft!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/61758

PS: Let's hope this new piece of McLarenMercedes and Microsoft technology doesn't get transfered on to road cars! :p :

[Valve Bounce]

As we all know for next year the FIA mandates the use of a standard ECU.
The tender for the production of this standard piece of electronics has been won by McLaren Electronic Systems.
After testing it the teams have found it to be no good, apparently they all had serious problems with it, and one team couldn't even get their engine started using the MES ECU.

We shouldn't forget that this ECU is produced in collaboration with Microsoft!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/61758

PS: Let's hope this new piece of McLarenMercedes and Microsoft technology doesn't get transfered on to road cars! :p :

Don't worry, Volvo will come to their rescue. Just you wait!!

[aryan]

Yeah well, there needed to be a standardised ECU in order to ban TC, and someone had to win the tender, and everyone else is now whinging because everyone now has to make some changes to their engine to make it work with the new ECU.

No news here, next...

[luvracin]

They just need to hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and then download updates..... that is AFTER registering at Microsoft.com of course. :p :

aww c'mon!! Someone had to say it!

[Shifter]

They just need to hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and then download updates..... that is AFTER registering at Microsoft.com of course. :p :

aww c'mon!! Someone had to say it!

Yeah, the engine would've started eventually if they had waited for the auto-update and the 'on-access scan' to complete. They just need to push the start button an hour before the formation lap.

[markabilly]

As we all know for next year the FIA mandates the use of a standard ECU.
The tender for the production of this standard piece of electronics has been won by McLaren Electronic Systems.
After testing it the teams have found it to be no good, apparently they all had serious problems with it, and one team couldn't even get their engine started using the MES ECU.

We shouldn't forget that this ECU is produced in collaboration with Microsoft!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/61758

PS: Let's hope this new piece of McLarenMercedes and Microsoft technology doesn't get transfered on to road cars! :p :


Excuse me, I am very certain it already has and will continue to work very fine on any and all cars piloted by LH...so them ferrari's have an occaisional misfire, probably that white powder.......


RD is already thinking, who needs kool aid when I got the ECU

opps Kimi blows again..gee that kimi is so rough on cars :rotflmao:

[Jimmy Magnusson]

They just need to hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and then download updates..... that is AFTER registering at Microsoft.com of course. :p :

aww c'mon!! Someone had to say it!

As John Hindaugh said:

And now we're listening to the incar radio of Michael Schumacher!

*Krshaap* Michael! Control, Alt, Deleate! *Krshaap*

[Valve Bounce]

To avoid any conflict of interest, all the manufacturers/F1teams should have been excluded from the tender process.

[tinchote]

To avoid any conflict of interest, all the manufacturers/F1teams should have been excluded from the tender process.


:up:

[ClarkFan]

They just need to hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and then download updates..... that is AFTER registering at Microsoft.com of course. :p :

aww c'mon!! Someone had to say it!

But how do you close all the open Windows in a F1 car? :confused:


:p

ClarkFan

[wmcot]

To avoid any conflict of interest, all the manufacturers/F1teams should have been excluded from the tender process.

Agreed 100%, but I suppose it was Max or Bernie that set up the deal. I would think that McLaren would have the advantage of running what is probably a modified version of their current ECU.

Still, with Microsoft as a partner it could make things interesting. I can just see a driver pulling off the course for no apparent reason - the sidenote on the scoring sheet will read "Blue screen of death!" :)

[Valve Bounce]

The Danish Espionage/Crime Odyssey Emmy winning television series? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eagle_(television_series)

Well, Boscoe developed a jammer which could jam electronics on cars, and the Russian Mafia, American Mafia and the CIA are all after the contraption. They switch this thing on, and all the motorcycles and police cars CPU's go kaput, and the baddies escape in an old VW kombi (which doesn't have a CPU engine management system).

Now, if somebody really developed such a jammer, and switched it on when certain cars came past him, then his chosen team (say Spyker, or Torro Rosso, or even Honda) on which he has bet zillions on, would win.

Isn't that a wonderful contraption? :p :

[markabilly]

The Danish Espionage/Crime Odyssey Emmy winning television series? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eagle_(television_series)

Well, Boscoe developed a jammer which could jam electronics on cars, and the Russian Mafia, American Mafia and the CIA are all after the contraption. They switch this thing on, and all the motorcycles and police cars CPU's go kaput, and the baddies escape in an old VW kombi (which doesn't have a CPU engine management system).

Now, if somebody really developed such a jammer, and switched it on when certain cars came past him, then his chosen team (say Spyker, or Torro Rosso, or even Honda) on which he has bet zillions on, would win.

Isn't that a wonderful contraption? :p :


NS is probably thinking: I should have thought of that myself--that stupid white powder probably would not have worked anyway...all it did was just get all over my pants...