The FIA has issued a revised technical directive to the teams on Friday morning with regards the recent ban on performance related radio communications and pit board messages.
The proposed ban had included all performance related information, but will now only concern a driver’s own performance, rather than that of the car itself which will be delayed until 2015 following safety concerns.
A revised list of banned messages has been sent to all the teams, with things like fuel use, engine settings/maps, gearbox settings, steering wheel settings, information on tyre pressures and temperatures and start procedures all now allowed.
The teams and drivers had complained that an immediate ban on such communications was too complex to implement without weeks of notice, therefore the aformentioned car related messages will be banned from the first race of 2015.
The revised list of non-permitted messages is below:
– Driving lines on the circuit;
– Contact with kerbs;
– Car set up parameters for specific corners;
– Comparative or absolute sector time detail of another driver;
– Speeds in corners compared to another driver;
– Gear selection compared with another driver;
– Gear selection in general;
– Braking points;
– Rate of braking compared to another driver;
– Rate of braking or application of brakes in general;
– Car stability under braking;
– Throttle application compared to another driver;
– Throttle application in general;
– Use of DRS compared with another driver;
– Use of any overtake button;
– Driving technique in general
