Trulli 'suspicious' about aids

[Dare]

Updated: January 24, 2008, 5:04 AM EST 9 comments RSS digg blog email print Jarno Trulli has claimed that some teams may have already found ways around the banning of electronic driver aids.

Thanks to the introduction of the the McLaren Electronics Systems (MES) standard ECU, drivers will not have the help of aids such as traction control, engine braking and launch control this season.
However, Toyota driver Trulli fears that some teams might be able to get around the electronic limitations conferred by the mandatory standard ECU.

Trulli told Italian magazine Autosprint: "I'm not going to name any names, but I think that some teams have already found a way to automate the starting procedure and reduce to the minimum the chance of spinning the wheels under acceleration.

"I'm not saying someone's cheating, even though we've received some conflicting information at Toyota.

"But having analysed the behaviour on the track both now and in the tests in December, the changes between them are many - and in several cases suspicious."

[CrazyHorse]

which is why traction cotrol was introduced in the first place because ferrari were using the pit lane limiter round certain corners as it had the same effect as traction control

 

[John S]

Oh and Toyota would never cheat, sorry bend the rules to the Nth degree, now would they!

[raindancer]

I don't think that is the issue John.

[Steven Roy]

How many times have you heard someone in F1 say you cannot unlearn.  Now that they have studied the effects of all this technology they are bound to have learned things that allow them to achie part of the same effect by legal means and no doubt a few things will crop up which need banned clarification.