autogyro wrote:wuzak wrote:Just had a thought....
Some teams share gearboxes with other teams - Ferrari with Sauber and (probably Marussia). McLaren help Force India, not sure if that extends to sharing the gearbox. And RBR's gearbox is used by Caterham.
Gear ratios for Ferrari and RBR will be unsuitable for Marussia and Caterham, I would think (speeds through corners, etc). So it may be that each gearbox customer will need to specify ratios that they require. Otherwise they could end up with ratios that do them no favours.
If the ratio's supplied in the gearbox from a top team are unsuitable for a lesser team, then it is because the aero and the rest of the cars powertrain is non competitive.
This lower team will therefore have absolutely no chance of improving its relative performance for the whole of the season under the new regulations that fix the gear ratios.
F1 is a spec formula designed only to benefit certain teams this is an absolute fact now.
I see no reason for the other teams to bother competing.
If you really think the other teams have no reason to compete, and you also think regulations are there to benefit some teams, I see no reason for you to watch F1
F1 is the top formula, and they´ve reached human limits, so they have to limit the cars because human body can´t cope with higher forces than they´re supporting today, at least for 2 continuous hours. This is the same that happens with aerobatic planes, the limit is the human inside, not the car/plane itself, so they need to put some limits to ensure drivers will be safe.
On aerobatic planes they support around 10Gs with G force suits, but on a plane all the G forces are on our vertical axis (pulling elevator), while on a car G forces are on all the axis, vertical on some cases (eau rouge), but mainly horinzontal, wich are harder to support because you have to hold your head, and your head with a helmet weight some good kg you have to multiply by 6 wich is the max G force they´re supporting now. That´s a lot of kg to support on corners or braking with your neck, and after 2h doing this effort there´s a blackout risk wich obviously is unaceptable
This is the only real reason of the regulations limit, we´ve reached human limits so we need to limit the aerodynamics to avoid higher G forces on corners, we need to limit the engines to avoid higher G forces on brakings (higher top speed means stronger braking as the downforce would be higher so they could brake stronger), we need to limit any aspect wich could improve cars perfomance because drivers wouldn´t support it, it really is this simple
Also, they use this excuse to put more limits when some team moves away from the competition, but IMHO this is good for the sport because they ensure drivers safety stopping a new way to continue improving perfomance and they also ensure competition will remain interesting, so it´s perfect for everybody, except the team on top (Ferrari with Schumy, Red Bull now...).
It´s a necessary evil, that´s all, we could discuss the way they put the limits (I´m first disagreeing with FIA´s way), but the limits itself are necessary
Keep in mind with 30 seconds they will use ERS on the acceleration of all the straights of the tracks, but they will still have a lot of seconds of ERS remaining, so maybe this would be more beneficial than using ERS for a short acceleration between two corners...
