This could really help shuffle up the field on the starts. Basically starts are fully manual with lots of room for error.
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These changes have been addressed to teams in FIA Technical Directives sent to F1 teams over the winter to inform them on what the FIA viewed as illegal driver aids.
The biggest change comes in how the paddle on the steering wheel now controls the clutch – because there has to be a linear torque control.
Beforehand, there was no linear demand. So, it was possible for an engineer to map the settings in a way that most of the movement on the steering wheel paddle would be in the clutch's 'sweet spot'.
As Kevin Magnussen explained: "You just had to release it between 10 percent and 80 percent.
"Somewhere in there was a flat map that would be set to the grip, the tyres and fuel loads. So the start was 100 percent up to the engineers before. But now it is completely down to us."
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