Launch control (automotive)

The launch control is a form of traction control, which serves to optimally accelerate a vehicle with automated manual transmission on the speed limit. The switching is automatic to controlled so that when starting abuts the speed that best accelerates the vehicle without wheel spin from the state. Depending on the software implementation of the automatic driving then the aisles full, and switches only in the highest speed in the next gear, up to the maximum design speed is reached. The Launch Control therefore is particularly suitable for Drag Races. Disadvantages are the high load on the engine, transmission (in particular overheating of the clutch, which is why at BMW, for example, this function only at a certain temperature coupling is possible ) and the high fuel consumption, resulting from the high speed.

The system was known by installation in Formula 1 racing cars. First it was in the 2001 season of the FIA ​​approved and already banned again from the Silverstone GP 2003. In the World Rally Championship, it was also used in World Rally Cars ( class A8). It is since the rules of the 2011 season there as well no longer in use.

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