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Re: Formula One Motor Racing
The push to pass button increases, or removes the upper rev limiter on the engine. As when in the slipstream of another car you have less drag and so can go faster. Usually a car will be setup to just fall shy of its rev limiter on the fastest part of the circuit. If you were following someone else close enough you'd hit your limiter and be stuck at normal speed.
The reason why its a button is because you do not want the engine to stray into high revs to often which could happen in the other 6 gears if the limiter was just set higher.
It's most likely easier to have one limit and an overide button than for the ecu to work out what gear the car is in and apply a limit based upon that.
Why would ferrari need it ? Backmarkers and being out of position from pit stops
Bring back the good ol' days of qualy, on fast circuits you could make use of your team mate to slipstream down a straight and then duck out of the way.
K
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