Wednesday, May 17, 2006
MON, MOY, MOT
They've added a graphic for this year on a Saturday to help with the situation in qualifying where you're trying to work out who is in and who is out at the end of each of the three qualifying sessions. And the graphics there work reasonably well except there is one problem that seems to have occurred three drivers this year have remarkably similar names. It started with two but since Ide got chucked out it's gone from bad to worse. Those drivers are: Monteiro (MON), Montoya (MOY) and Montagny (MOT). The thing is that Montoya is the bigger driver but didn't get MON. He only got MOY which seems odd especially as he's so often known as JPM (for Juan PABLO Montoya - James please please try and remember that other cultures have multiple first names and that you aren't simply missing out his middle name by calling him Juan Montoya you are CALLING HIM BY THE WRONG NAME! He's either Juan Pablo, Juan Pablo Montoya or Montoya. NOT JUAN MONTOYA! Calm, Calm, try to be calm).
So they must have been doing the naming order by alphabetical order which makes Montagny so controversial. He, had he been there at the beginning of the season, would have been MON. But now he has to be MOT. It's so very sad.
Actually I think that graphic which shows how qualifying is going (the one in the top left) works very well. The scrawl is also good but I tend to use that one less. I also liked the introduction of the new graphic in Spain which showed what the top speed through a particular speed trap was of all of the cars.
One new graphic that I think would be really useful would be on which showed the number of miles raced by an engine. This would include all practice laps and from the previous race.
Anyone else out there got a suggestion for a graphic?
So they must have been doing the naming order by alphabetical order which makes Montagny so controversial. He, had he been there at the beginning of the season, would have been MON. But now he has to be MOT. It's so very sad.
Actually I think that graphic which shows how qualifying is going (the one in the top left) works very well. The scrawl is also good but I tend to use that one less. I also liked the introduction of the new graphic in Spain which showed what the top speed through a particular speed trap was of all of the cars.
One new graphic that I think would be really useful would be on which showed the number of miles raced by an engine. This would include all practice laps and from the previous race.
Anyone else out there got a suggestion for a graphic?
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Obviously it'd be great to press the red button and find live-timing screens, be able to select which onboard camera you want to follow, and have a graphic showing where every car is on the lap. Then, of course, you'd just have to buy about 5 TVs to watch them all at once.
I love the current one where you can see the brake and accelerator imput of two drivers fighting each other - although I'm wary as to how accurate it is. You can see how Michael never lets his foot off the accelerator.
I love the current one where you can see the brake and accelerator imput of two drivers fighting each other - although I'm wary as to how accurate it is. You can see how Michael never lets his foot off the accelerator.
Apparently that one with the accelerator and break works from the sound of the engine which means that it can't ever be 100% accurate. But the people who developed it had a previous customer to television... Apparently the technology was developed to help one team listen to other teams cars and understand what was going on.
btw. their offices are based in a little town in Italy.
btw. their offices are based in a little town in Italy.
I think it's the same with the rev counter and gear indicator they sometimes show. It's all done from the sound of the engine rather than the telemetry - which is strictly secret. I guess this is why Ferrari refused at first to allow us to see their onboard cameras.
The same thing applies to the pit stop counter. That's completely inaccurate, but the teams can measure exactly and know precisely when the other teams will stop.
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The same thing applies to the pit stop counter. That's completely inaccurate, but the teams can measure exactly and know precisely when the other teams will stop.
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