FIA technical delegate Charlie Whiting has confirmed that Honda will be allowed to develop its power unit throughout the 2015 season on a similar basis as was allowed for the other manufacturers.
Next year they will be supplying as many teams as Ferrari and Renault combined, thus its a lot more expensive for them to provide multiple spec engines.Jonnycraig wrote:However they have refused to agree to the proposed amendment making it compulsory to provide customers with the latest upgrades...bill shoe wrote:Mercedes, incredibly, has offered to undo some of the freeze despite no legal obligation to do so.
When your budget is circa £300m per year, it's small change to produce upgrades for yourself and not your customers.dans79 wrote:Next year they will be supplying as many teams as Ferrari and Renault combined, thus its a lot more expensive for them to provide multiple spec engines.Jonnycraig wrote:However they have refused to agree to the proposed amendment making it compulsory to provide customers with the latest upgrades...bill shoe wrote:Mercedes, incredibly, has offered to undo some of the freeze despite no legal obligation to do so.
As it happens, some members here have suspected this to be the case, so did Ron Dennis and complained about it.Jonnycraig wrote: ...
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Bean counters don't care if it's 1m increase, it's an increase and thus must be passed on to customers.Jonnycraig wrote:
When your budget is circa £300m per year, it's small change to produce upgrades for yourself and not your customers.
That's just because he is to arrogant to admit his aerodynamic department is a joke right now!xpensive wrote:As it happens, some members here have suspected this to be the case, so did Ron Dennis and complained about it.Jonnycraig wrote: ...
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Its been alluded to before but the agreement between the engine supplier and the team was subject to different pricing options.xpensive wrote:As it happens, some members here have suspected this to be the case, so did Ron Dennis and complained about it.Jonnycraig wrote: ...
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What was deregulated recently Ciro?Ciro Pabón wrote:Well, F1 has hit the capitalist wall.
In capitalism, once you deregulate a sector invariably tends to have only three players while the other smaller potatoes are adorn figures:
* ABC-NBC-CBS
* Android-iOS-Blackberry
* ATT-Verizon-CenturyLink
* BP-Chevron-ExxonMobil
* Volkswagen-Daimler-BMW
* GM-Ford-Chrysler
* Toyota-Nissan-Honda
* IBM-Apple-Compaq
* Shem, Ham and Japhet
and now
Renault-Ferrari-Mercedes
https://sites.google.com/site/ciropabon ... enault.png
Considering the vastly increased prize money from winning the WCC, I think their accountants would be quite happy to see them spend a bit extra on some upgrades solely for the factory cars.dans79 wrote:Bean counters don't care if it's 1m increase, it's an increase and thus must be passed on to customers.Jonnycraig wrote:
When your budget is circa £300m per year, it's small change to produce upgrades for yourself and not your customers.
As has been mentioned several times this season on Sky, McLaren were denied supply of the super duper go-faster fuel that the factory car has run for most of the seasonmrluke wrote:Its been alluded to before but the agreement between the engine supplier and the team was subject to different pricing options.xpensive wrote:As it happens, some members here have suspected this to be the case, so did Ron Dennis and complained about it.Jonnycraig wrote: ...
However they have refused to agree to the proposed amendment making it compulsory to provide customers with the latest upgrades...
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The lowest option being all engines supplied at start of season and no upgrades available up to the highest option of every upgrade supplied as soon as it is available to every remaining engine.
This is very much different to a supplier deliberately giving lower powered engines to x team or retaining a particularly good one for the manufacturers favorite team.
You will also get crappy racing, for example the 9991 united states grand prix.GitanesBlondes wrote: Pair more technical freedom with more inexpensive engines, and you'll get plenty of manufacturers.
This has what to do with engines?dans79 wrote:You will also get crappy racing, for example the 9991 united states grand prix.GitanesBlondes wrote: Pair more technical freedom with more inexpensive engines, and you'll get plenty of manufacturers.
only 4 cars on the lead lap and only 2 really had a chance of winning, and half the field had a technical DNF.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Unite ... Grand_Prix
its a responsive to your post that implies that somehow having more engine manufactures is better.GitanesBlondes wrote:This has what to do with engines?dans79 wrote:You will also get crappy racing, for example the 9991 united states grand prix.GitanesBlondes wrote: Pair more technical freedom with more inexpensive engines, and you'll get plenty of manufacturers.
only 4 cars on the lead lap and only 2 really had a chance of winning, and half the field had a technical DNF.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Unite ... Grand_Prix
This was because the technology arms race was only unfolding. If someone is willing to spend $100mil on something, there's no way around that.GitanesBlondes wrote:Pair more technical freedom with more inexpensive engines, and you'll get plenty of manufacturers.
