piast9 wrote:Whatever will happen I'd like to not see engine freeze any more. In my opinion it would be enough to set minimal weight and COG, limit the number of engines per season, limit use of expensive materials and introduce a rule, that engine manufacturer HAS to supply at least one customer team for certain maximum amount of money per unit.
To prevent manufacturers from making different (and expensive) engines for factory team some scrutineering and comparing used engines from factory and customer teams would be necessary.
With that rule we would have affordable engines and technical freedom. Let the engines to spin whatever rpm they can, let the teams achieving the limits of the technology possible for given, reasonable amount of money.
A also think that allowing to use different engine types such as diesel/petrol, turbo and NA etc with some equalization rules is not a good idea. Such thing existed in turbo era in F1 and despite of the efforts the engines were far from equal. The only limit should be a capacity and technology, just to set the power at reasonable level.
In the future the only thing which will mean anything will be the amount of fuel/energy allowed by the regulations to complete the race. It will not matter what capacity, number of cylinders, rpm, valve type or anything else the designer chooses, so long as they work it out for the best efficiency/power delivery.
This technical direction 'must' be taken if F1 is to reflect the needs of modern vehicle design and if it hopes to continue in existance in the future. This is the 'only' way to at last ensure development of ic technology away from the present stagnation and onward to its ultimate efficient form.
At present the embedded motor heads in all the organising bodies and teams, are delaying this inevitable and demanded change for their own selfish and self serving reasons.
Their only argument which is so silly and banded about so much, is that the cars must go brrrm brrrm to sound macho. How narrow minded and daft can anyone be?
