Bottas’ AI caused his accident: “The system got confused”
Valtteri Bottas He suffered an accident on the penultimate lap of the Baku GP. Although at first it seemed like a driving error, the Finn explained that it was an error in his car’s artificial intelligence. “It was pretty strange. I went off in the first corner of that same lap, so I think the system got a little confused.”he said to the F1 microphones.
George Russellduring an interview for M.D.already talked about how the car learns. “The more consistent you are, the better the system learns and the more it can be optimized for that style.. “If you’re constantly changing the braking point or how much you accelerate (out of the corner), the system is continually adjusting, so it’s not as optimized.”
To the pilot of cadillac his system seems to have been deconfigured during the lap, just in his adventure through the loophole in turn one, which made him travel more meters and that sYour car did not know where it was on the circuit.. “I had a long superclipping, about 100 meters, and then probably only the front brakes were working. It was almost like I wasn’t braking with the rear brakes anymore.”
I had a long superclipping, about 100 meters, and then probably only the front brakes worked
Despite having started just ahead of his teammate, Sergio Perezin the first round I had already lost positions with both him and Fernando Alonso. “In any case, it was a long and difficult day and, unfortunately, we still couldn’t find the rhythm.”
In 2021 he was the winner of the race, and in 2019, a puncture forced him to retire when he was leading on the Azerbaijan track. He has remained very far from those performances during a weekend where he has become more than 70 seconds behind Pérez before the safety car.
The FIA did not use the safety car in his accident
His weekend was finished off by that bug in his car’s software. It could have been even worse, since race direction considered that it was enough to show a double yellow flag in the affected sectors and allowed the race to continue during the remaining lap.
An accident with a car already embedded in the wall could have been incredibly dangerous for the drivers involved. But the FIA preferred that the spectacle take precedence over the safety of the drivers; Verstappen either Russel They practically raced past them before entering the main straight.
