You can do a bunch of stuff since the engine map is a 3D map possibly even 4D too... Simple thing to do is limit the boost pressure. On the same engine map the engine will simply inject less fuel to make less power.organic wrote: ↑06 Mar 2023, 23:43I think you are allowed to change the electronic deployment of the engine which is likely what they did. I believe if you reduced to a very low level of deployment, you would also decrease the load on the engine through lowering RPM - or am I mistaken?Juzh wrote: ↑06 Mar 2023, 23:40I went trough verstappen's onboard, nothing remarkable to report, except for unreal amounts of lift and coast from lap 1 till the end and just general driving at 7/10s for literally the whole race. You can see it in car behaviour that it's just not being pushed. Leaving meters of tarmac unused on exits and stuff like that. You wonder how it's possible to be fast this way, but here we are.
At some point because of all this not pushing front brakes stared to develop a split in temps, so he had to brake harder on some laps to remedy the situation.
Engine got detuned with about 8-10 laps remaining. Engine 6, position 1 - looks like this reduces performance in some way. I dont believe you can actually go back up on the engine once you lower it, can anyone confirm this? Seems unlikely with locked engine maps from quali onwards.
Other than that just constant reminders of laptime targets.
Also lowering engine modes during a race requires a reliability reason and has to go through the FIA process of being approved I believe
Also can open wastegate slightly if you wish to reduce engine temperatures a bit too...