I still believe that both should still remain available during qualifying, however should hotlap be available during the race?
I feel like it's absurd the fact that we can just run hotlap pretty much every lap of the race, and it seems to me that this is one of the problems on why the ERS is easily harvested during a race.
Yeah, it feels kinda weird to be able to comfortably run in Hotlap mode with no engine brake for an entire race at Jeddah and hardly get close to draining the battery.
@Meza994 wrote:
@TomasSlb24Afaik its forbidden to use none in the races - might be false info though. So that mode can be scrapped. Personally i like to have the option to just chuck it into Hotlap mode - when its not letting you do it every lap - like when you are doing an inlap for an overcut or such, concentrating on the driving not having to think about overtake and such situations
Unfortunately I don't remember the exact race, but in one race Hamilton was about to set the fastest lap, while Alonso was the car behind, who in turn told his race engineer that Hamilton was using mode charge or strat 1, which is indicated by a certain pattern of flashing signals on the rear of the car. Either Alonso misunderstood those signals, or there's something else going on, like Hamilton's gap to the other car,allowed to use NO ERS in such a rare scenario.
The flashing lights do mean that the car is in an harvest energy mode, but like @Meza994 said, I think completely cutting the energy is not possible. They just get an higher harvest mode compared to the deployment mode. I tried to search it up, but did not get the confirmation if it's possible to deploy no energy during the race.
Must be they cant be deploying under safety car ,vsc or pit lane
@Meza994 wrote:
@Blackbird90Id think it was just a mode that was cutting off deployment earlier thus the flashing lights, but completely no deployment for the whole lap shouldnt be allowed? I could be 100% wrong on this, have to dig up the regulations tomorrow!
It was at Spa 2023. So indeed Lewis was told to go to strat 1. Just checked the radio.
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