Martin Schanche's virus

I heard an extraordinary thing this week - Martin Schanche has pinned the poor performance of his Division 1 ERC Opel Astra on a computer virus he has uncovered in the engine management system.

Has anyone else heard anything about this? And is this a first in motor sport, do you suppose?

Not a clue. Was it the Kournikova virus perhaps? ;)

Martin, you naughty, naughty man! :laugh:

That's okay... just as long as he didn't do his infamous dance in front of the other competitors racing... :rotate:

But seriously, could it really have been a virus, or simply a glitch in the system? The latter would be my guess.

Tim, did you hear this (like me) on one of the Sky Sports Motorsports programmes?

All it said was exactly what Tim says. I assumed at the time that the laptop that the management codes were adjusted on had a nasty floating around on its harddrive, and was passed on to the Astra's ECU. Surely they wouldn't use the same programming language, would they?
I reckon it means the information that should have been loaded from the host PC was corrupt, and was disadvantaged.

I'll see if I can find more. :)

Let that be a lesson to you, Sparky, i setting up Chris' very high-tech Mini...;)

You are, of course, quite right Dan - I had to nip out today and get a new operating system for my biggest hammer...

I was running Hammer v3.01, but I couldn't get it to hit anything without crashing... ;)