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Originally Posted by keithwalton
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Originally Posted by ian@huth
If its the push to pass system that you are talking about then it is a time controlled boost that you can activate to give you chance to overtake or resist being overtaken. You have only so many seconds per race where you can use it which is preset by the race organisers and cannot be altered or extended.
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eh? its not controlled by the race organisers at all. The push to pass, or overtake button. Temporarly raises the rev limiter, and uses a more aggresive engine mapping. The only reason there is a limited amount of it is because it puts a high strain on the engine and is not sustainable. The engine engineers know how much (or so they reckon) how much it can safely take before going bang. |
The time that push to pass is operable in Champ cars is set at 60 seconds per race and the time available WAS set by the organisers. Read a little about it at
http://www.carkeys.co.uk/features/sport/3673.asp
This was fairly easy to introduce in Champ cars as they all use identical Ford Cosworth engines. F1 cars could be fitted with electronic speed limiters to slow them down with a similar push to pass system which could remove the limitation for a set number of seconds per race.