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09-14-2009, 05:17 PM

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To this day I still find it amazing that fellow McLaren competitors have no problem with a spec ECU from an entitiy of McLaren. Wow.

Agreed, worse even that Microsoft is also involved.

Although there may be grumbling now that they have "discovered" more HP.

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09-14-2009, 05:18 PM

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To this day I still find it amazing that fellow McLaren competitors have no problem with a spec ECU from an entitiy of McLaren. Wow.

Simple.
They weren't given a choice.

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09-14-2009, 05:27 PM

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It's only fair. Ferrari runs a McLaren ECU and McLaren runs everything else Ferrari.

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09-14-2009, 06:14 PM

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post race technical inspection found this in all of the Merc powered cars

That can't be.....Miss Alonso is not on a Mercedes powered team anymore so the cheating has moved to another team now.

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09-14-2009, 11:09 PM

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I'm just sad Shoo was not driving at Monza , it would have been priceless to see him being passed by Luizzi ....

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09-15-2009, 02:10 AM

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I'm just sad Shoo was not driving at Monza , it would have been priceless to see him being passed by Luizzi ....

OUCH!

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09-16-2009, 12:44 PM

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[QUOTE=Veloce Raptor;6902673]Agreed, worse even that Microsoft is also involved.

Although there may be grumbling now that they have "discovered" more HP.

I heard that only the Mercedes powered teams were allowed to replace Vista in their ECU with "7".

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09-16-2009, 12:51 PM

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I'm just sad Shoo was not driving at Monza , it would have been priceless to see him being passed by Luizzi ....

Would never happen, he would have crashed into Liuzzi.

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09-16-2009, 12:56 PM

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Agreed, worse even that Microsoft is also involved.

Although there may be grumbling now that they have "discovered" more HP.

I heard that only the Mercedes powered teams were allowed to replace Vista in their ECU with "7".

No, that would make them slower.
Mercedes is clearly running Mac OS in the ECU and running a VMWare Fusion session with Vista/ECU embedded.

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