raymondu999 wrote:Intego wrote:[...] wouldn't it make sense to throw away this year's development (which wasn't that effective) and start again on the RB5 base?[...]
Are you saying use the RB5 as a base instead of the STR5 then?
Yes, I do. The development on the STR5 hasn't brought the outcome that was required this year. Even the struggling BMW Sauber team got more points this year.
Ok, granted that reachable points were thrown away by drivers or technical issues (don't want to read up on the detailed facts). But, if you take the f-duct as an example, they were the only team to work on it and never got it work. I don't remember if they ran the DDD in 2009, but without Vettel they could not achieve the success of 2008 (6th in front of parent team Red Bull). They were last in the last two years, if you exclude the newbies.
Maybe they have to admit that their direction of development was wrong and make a sort of "undo". Now is the best time for that, because ...
Florio wrote:You can't realistically base a 2011 car on a car that was designed two years ago. There's been major, major changes. Tyres, no refuelling etc, and basing a 2011 car on the RB5 just because it was fast without A DDD is just silly.
I say, you can. The changes that come to F1 this year mean nothing but turn back time to 2009 with refuelling banned and new tyres. DDD was unkonwn before and now you can ignore that, and so was f-duct. The car specs (FW, RW etc.) are the same. KERS was in 2009, but I don't know, if STR has any experience, maybe from RBR (as cooperation was allowed that year).
In my point of view, F1 made a step backwards, trying to run a new year 2009 without loopholes.
But you never know ... [-o<
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