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If Montoya escaped penalty only because they changed engine before he was out in the car why wouldn’t than all teams before each Friday put in a new engine and not race 2 races with same engine?
I'd understand this if Montoya was expect to run fresh engine at Spa but I think he was using fresh engine at Monza and if so than Spa should have been second race for that engine...?!
Since Montoya's car was eligible for a new engine this weekend, and the team changed the engines before he had been out on the track, I must assume the interpretation was that he had not officially started the race weekend.
That would make sense if FIA wasn’t using seals on engines and enlisting each specific engine etc. What I’m trying to say is that his first new engine obviously went under certain FIA procedure because if not than this whole story and announcement of change would be something no one sane would publish.
Why would a team and engine manufacturer make such announcement to embarrass them selves if that change had nothing to with FIA regulations?
It is not as if they had 5 engines unpacked and than chosen different one from the original pick - first engine was fitted to a car and run in pits, right?
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I know that this is a little off topic, but since the title is this topic is "Spa 2005", I figured, why not...
One thing I don't understand about Toyota's F1 team - why spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars on R&D if they're going to base their strategy on an "eenie, meenie, miny, moe" method? I don't get it - they tried to put Trulli on dry weather tires (despite his wishes), and have, effectively, ruined his chances of not only finishing on a podium, but getting any points at all. So, why would they risk of doing the same thing on Ralf's car since he was obviously extremely quick on intermediates. I was watching F1's live timing while he was closing down the gap between him and Montoya, and I could not believe how quick he was (about a second/lap). After catching up with him, his lap times dropped into 58's from his 56's (on intermediate tires). Clearly, Montoya was in his way. So, why the hell would they risk putting dry weather tires on his car? I cannot understand the logic behind it.
I can see them thinking that they had the chance of actually winning this race, but, come on, don't get too greedy. Last year they had 9 points (if I'm not mistaken). This year, they have 80 with another three races to go. I can understand that TMC (Toyota Motor Company) is putting pressure on them to win some races, but this is clearly not the way to go)...and not to mention safety of not just Ralf, but everybody on the track.
I don't think the teams have enough privacy in the garage to be able to do an engine change without being observed by outsiders. If that was so, it would be folly not to be first to announce the engine change, to avoid others making the announcement, and maybe adding info that may be negative to the team. Maybe they didn't want the embarassment of an engine change, but if it couldn't be hidden, then it would be politically prudent to strike first, and announce the change themselves.
According to the FIA Sporting Regulations http://www.fia.com/resources/documents/ ... ions_a.pdf Paragraph 85, it appears that the rule did not apply until after the "qualifying practice session".
f1.redbaron wrote:I know that this is a little off topic, but since the title is this topic is "Spa 2005", I figured, why not...
It is not off topic, I didn't have better idea for topic name and it was obvious that there'll be other comments on this race as the rain was expected...
