Well that just Alpine. What about all the other teams? Plus engineers Salaries fall under the cap. Think the new regs provide for 1 or 2 exceptions.AR3-GP wrote: ↑10 Mar 2022, 01:05Yes because it's not just about budget cap, it's also about engineering talent and the Enstone team worries me...Musical chairs leadership, boring looking car, rumors of a struggle with the new fuel and PU. Can't make a DRS work. Burn the whole car down to the ground in Barcelona.... Good grief.
The CEO said they have significantly more power and ran the PU really hard to try and break it so they could fix it and be ready for the season. That's was why Prost thought they had reliability issues. Power is just 1 dimension where the new PU is improved. It's lighter, more compact, runs hotter and requires less cooling. Those other piece probably equal the amount of power. That being said, I'd be surprised if they don't have PU issues equivalent to what Merc had last year. Merc still won the constructors.
Plus the changes didn't happen over the winter. They actually took place last year. They were just announced this year. Rossi said they were effective Nov 1st. If you go back, there was noise that Budkowski was out and Otmar was in all the way back in May 2021. Below Fry and Harman, all stable.
I'm not saying they're gonna win the constructors this year, just to early to say either way. Some times conservative is good.
