So I was watching Zhou’s onboard trying to figure out how he dropped 4 places at the starting straight, and noticed a few things.
When he released the clutch the gearbox made some kind of grinding noise that seems to signal that the gears aren’t biting properly (may be human error or technical issue)
During the first 5 gears none of the rev lights on the wheel was on when the gear change actually happened, may very well be short shifting to limit slip.
However even at 6th and 7th gear the rev lights doesn’t seem to show the green lights to the left, it’s either all off or the red and blue ones on the right are lit.
The third point in particular seems strange to me as I always thought that if the engine revs high enough the band of lights will start lighting up from the very left all the way to the right, not start somewhere in the middle. I guess I just don’t understand this at the moment, any insight will be very welcome, thanks a lot!
Not sure about the rest of the points but the lights I thought the left 4 lights are DRS. 1 to show its available 2 to show its useable and 4 showing its active. But maybe I’m just confused cause that’s how they have it in the F1 car in iracing 🤷🏻♂️
It's completely configurable for each driver, so what those lights show is up to them and them team. Could be DRS, could use it as part of the rev counter or could be something else entirely.
That’s interesting, I looked over some more footage and during the actual racing the 3 lights on the very left would light up one by one upon exiting the final corner, and all 3 would shut down in around 2 seconds time. The timing makes them entirely possible to be DRS indication light. (Still not sure why they lit up before the race start, maybe some dedicated display mode for race starts?)
Almost every driver uses the left most lights as DRS indicators, so it’s likely Zhou does the same but like you said it could be a different UI setting specific for race starts that he likes.
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u/Schwerter_105 May 23 '22 edited May 23 '22
So I was watching Zhou’s onboard trying to figure out how he dropped 4 places at the starting straight, and noticed a few things.
When he released the clutch the gearbox made some kind of grinding noise that seems to signal that the gears aren’t biting properly (may be human error or technical issue)
During the first 5 gears none of the rev lights on the wheel was on when the gear change actually happened, may very well be short shifting to limit slip.
However even at 6th and 7th gear the rev lights doesn’t seem to show the green lights to the left, it’s either all off or the red and blue ones on the right are lit.
The third point in particular seems strange to me as I always thought that if the engine revs high enough the band of lights will start lighting up from the very left all the way to the right, not start somewhere in the middle. I guess I just don’t understand this at the moment, any insight will be very welcome, thanks a lot!