Big Tea wrote:SmallSoldier wrote: ↑16 Aug 2020, 19:46
Big Tea wrote:
Just a small point, but an essential one. The ruling by FIA is clear in regards to the illegality of the RBD’
No, they are completely legal or would be foul of the tec regs and slam dunk, the car can not be raced.
They are legal, it is the design process that is in question. Nit picking yes, but that is what the whole dispute is about
Agreed, the RBD’s comply with the “Technical Regulations”, but they were found non-compliant under the “Sport Regulations” (therefore the 15 point penalty).
It’s an interesting case for sure.
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It seams not all the teams are against what 'Tracing point' have done, it may just be 'the party line' for some
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/tost ... =widget-22
included from Tost (who is currently hiding from Marco)
“I know all the F1 purists say, ‘Ah, we must be a constructor. Every team must design everything in-house.’ The question is, and you know the engineers are saying this, but how do you finance everything?
“Because we reached such a high level on the technical side, the top teams have such a fantastic infrastructure. If someone wants to come into F1 – even the teams which are in F1, if they want to catch up – this is very difficult, and nearly impossible.
“And you spend millions. And I’m just asking, what for? I’m asking, why does every team have to have its own wind tunnel, has to have its own CFD, has to have 500-600 employees?...
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Personally I still think back to the days when we came to F1 with Toro Rosso and we just got a one-year-old car from Red Bull Technology, and we could race with a third of the money.”
Well, not surprised for Tost to be in favor of the RP’s strategy since they could have an RB16 next year if allowed.
He is correct in regards to the disparity between teams, which is drive by the massive difference in budgets... But that is already been addressed with he budget cap starting next year.
Also, if we consider the rate of evolution and development in F1, the proposal for customer teams using previous year cars will definitely create a bigger 2 tier championship... With the customer teams always one year behind the “Constructors”.
It will be even more problematic when we talk about clear B-Teams (Alfa Tauri and Alpha Romeo), where their resources could be used to assist the A-Teams... If the B-Teams aren’t designing their own cars and just using the A-Teams cars, the A-Teams can use the resources from the B-Teams to help them develop their own cars, therefore creating an advantage for those with more than one team and in a way circumventing the budget cap.
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