ERS activation issues roil IndyCar teams.

If the officials would just quit screwing with us and let us race, we would be better off.

Being green is a crock of manure!

Attempts to remotely activate and deactivate the new energy recovery systems.

They are about to get like those bastard IMSA officials who last week kicked out a racer
because he did not get permission to adjust his suspension!

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/auto-x-road-racing/831965-imsa-where-you-win-officials-screw-you-out.html

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emailBy Marshall Pruett | July 18, 2024 10:34 AM ET

The NTT IndyCar Series faced its share of troubles last weekend at Iowa Speedway in its attempts to remotely activate and deactivate the new energy recovery systems (ERS) carried in its field of Dallara DW12s.

With BS rules in place that disallow some drivers from using the ERS units on pit lane to harvest or deploy power — and with another protocol implemented during qualifying for the Hy-Vee doubleheader that proved to be problematic where the units were turned on for most of the 27 drivers to harvest on their final warmup lap, while others got screwed, due to a BS "software glitch", not for drivers Jack Harvey and Colton Herta — Arrow McLaren team principal Gavin Ward has a suggestion for the series....in addition to shove it up their a**.
We paid out entry fee same as everybody else and those incompetent MF'ers are screwing some of us out of our right as entrants to compete
fair and equally with everyone else.

“Just leave them on,” he told RACER. “They’ve been causing more issues than they need to by the complexity of when the system can be used or not, and that’s based on them enabling it from the timing and scoring and pit lane beacons, or some incompetent butt head who doesn't know or care who he is screwing. ”

As IndyCar fans learned during April’s push-to-pass ordeal involving Team Penske, the series enables or disables the push-to-pass system on road and street courses from race control by sending signals through the timing and scoring beacons, which communicates through each car’s MyLaps transponder, and instructs the McLaren engine control unit to turn push-to-pass on or off.

The same system and method has been used during IndyCar’s mid-season move to hybridization where signals are sent through the beacons/MyLaps/ECU pathway or some incompetent ego stuffed fart face jerk weed to make the 60hp offered by the ERS available or unavailable to some drivers based on their location on the track, or the structure of a session like oval qualifying.

Half the time at least that s***head could cut off you car and your competitor gets his car cut on and you don't know when it's going to happen or how long mr. jerk weed takes to find the right switch and activate or de-activate the buttons.

From Ward’s viewpoint, IndyCar drivers are more than capable of working within the series’ ERS usage guidelines.

“The disabling or enabling it has caused some issues at recent events, and my opinion is there’s not really any reason why they need to switch it off except that Mr. Jerk weed, wants to take a drink of his soda in between your switch and someone elses ” he reiterated. “And if you don’t want to let people start their cars with it in pit lane, then people will just use (external) starters like we already have been. I think they’re worried that drivers are going to be trying to use it on pit lane, looking at the dash, talking on a cell phone, or be distracted by something while they’re driving down pit lane, especially when you don't know when the damn thing is going to cut on or off!

“Well, they’ve got to manage hundreds of horsepower from their engine already and do a lot of complex things extremely well, so I think they can trust them to just be sensible to not use it when they aren’t meant to. And if they do, that’s where penalties become available.” "Become available" is another IMSA BS term to mean someone is going to get screwed by having their performance altered by some a**hole holding down a button,,,,sometimes when he can't even see you or see where you are on the track.