r/F1Technical • u/mrbitterpants • 14d ago

Regulations How direct/specific do steering wheel settings need to be? Eg. Are macros allowed?

Can macros be created to execute a series of settings changes with a single driver input? Eg. A ‘turn 4’ macro that changes brake balance, differential and battery deployment with one button press? Or must each driver input only affect one parameter?

I’m guessing that the engine mode settings change multiple parameters within the engine at once so maybe macros are possible for other settings?

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u/_usernamepassword_ 14d ago

I think they’re allowed, the issue is these setting change over a tires life and what compound they’re on. Otherwise they’d likely already just have a “turn the knob for the next corners settings” already in place

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u/ImReverse_Giraffe 14d ago

They're allowed a certain number of presets.

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u/mrbitterpants 14d ago

Good point. So maybe macros are allowed but not very useful I guess.

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u/_usernamepassword_ 14d ago

If memory serves me correctly, I remember someone walking through their wheel and mentioning it has a “favorite switch” which does go to a preset thing. Again though, if it were practical to just do this for ever corner, I think itd be done already

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u/TheMadFlyentist 14d ago

In a recent video by Yelistener on YouTube he breaks down an old Rosberg pole lap and explains there is a button on the wheel for a brake balance preset, or a "favorite switch" as you put it.

Toggling the button switches between the preset and whatever the current values are set to on the wheel itself.

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u/ImReverse_Giraffe 14d ago

They're allowed a certain number of presets.