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No adaptive strategies for single ECU
MotoGP's new unified ECU will not continuously adapt traction control and fuel consumption during a race. Perhaps the most obvious example of such advanced factory technology came when Andrea Iannone accidentally put his Ducati into a wet setting - including traction control, wheelie control and torque delivery - at the start of the (dry) 2014 Spanish MotoGP at Jerez. The Italian rode the whole race with the wet setting, but 'after three or four laps' the ECU was smart enough to adapt to the real track conditions. Iannone was able to recover from eleventh to sixth, matching the pace of third place Valentino Rossi by the closing stages. Such self-learning will no longer be possible with the...
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