Re: Hotlap and overtake

I cant use hotlap every lap if I want to use overtake as well otherwise battery is empty. I tend to run medium in the race with good amount of overtake. Medium is tuned for better traction as well. Hotlap i mainly use in qualy sometimes on longer straights in the race to avoid the clipping that medium does at high speed

I want to use medium during the race too, but the only way I can hold to the AI in the straights seems to be by only using hotlap. Like @Meza994 said, hotlap is indeed a good use for inlaps or outlaps for undercut or overcut, but than it's impossible to keep up with the AI. The recovery is broken and need's to be looked into. The way ERS worked before was way more balanced.

The ers behavior has been made to more closely match real world so to day its broken isnt really true. It just takes more understanding and practice of where and when to deploy and regen. Use overtake to defend but regen in twisty sections by using medium or none - sector 2 in Bahrain for example, sector 3 in melbourne

The 2MJ per lap recovery is the ers-k the turbo recovery is unlimited recovery per lap, although what the capability of that is i dont know - by now i suspect its a lot

however i agree the ai seems to have a lot of overtake available

Plus the engine braking makes this way to easy to recover. I run 100% at every track and can routinely run overtake mode for a fair portion of a lap while recovering it all in the corners

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.

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@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

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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

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@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!

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It was at Spa 2023. So indeed Lewis was told to go to strat 1. Just checked the radio.