The WRC event director, Simon Larkin, says that WRC Promoter will use Martins Sesks's car to test the live data at Rally Latvia this week and reveals which will be their next steps on trying the Command Centre for the rest of the season.
WRC Promoter has confirmed a month ago that a new technology will be introduced to World Rally Championship from 2025 including the team radio and the live data. As WRC loses its prestige at motorsport world due to the lack of manufacturers, WRC Promoter is trying to revive the sport by proposing some interesting ideas, such as the new WRC point system which was applied since the beginning of this year. Formula 1 technology gives the chance to the fans to hear the live conversation between a team and a driver during free practices, qualifyings and races, but also to inform them with some interesting subjects like the window on tyre strategy. However, it must be mentioned that M-Sport Ford and WRC Promoter tested the live data for the first time on Adrien Fourmaux's Puma during their pre-event test ahead of Rally Poland and their plan is to continue testing the Command Centre before its official debut at Rallye Monte Carlo next January. Finally, WRC Promoter is considering of developing a helmet camera and has already contacted Stilo to start designing this camera with the intention of providing a cockpit view to the audience.
"We installed a data transmission system on the car when Adrien Fourmaux was driving for a day and the delivery of data was quite effective and more effective than we thought,” WRC event director Simon Larkin told Autosport/Motorsport.com.
"The M-Sport engineers were very pleased with what they saw so we are very happy with how that has gone and our plan is to install a system on Sesks car in Latvia for us and not the team to access, to do a bit more of a real world test.
"Then we will do it again in Finland with perhaps one car from each team.
"I think in Greece we will probably start trying a single radio system.
"It will be about testing, testing and testing.
"When we start in Monte Carlo which is the plan, we want it to be robust and useful.
"We are being quite considered and progressive with how we are testing.
"There is the opportunity for hundreds of data channels, and we don’t want all of those because the teams will potentially invest in having extra engineers to analyse that.
"For Monte Carlo next year we will decide on a number of data points that we think can help the team’s performance and analysing a car and its ability to continue and interesting for fans and our TV product, without providing another way for the teams to spend money".
Source: Motorsport.com
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