Following a long meeting and discussions between the involved teams, Brawn GP, Williams and Toyota have been given allowance to compete in this weekend's Australian Grand Prix with their current diffuser designs.
sorry i should have chosen my words more carefully im just not having a very good day. sorry.jwielage wrote:Rules are rules, you are either within it, or breaking it. It's black and white.
freedom_brawn,
Im not sure what is more glaring, the juvenile simplicity of your argument or your blatant favoritism toward the Honda, err... I mean BRAWN team. No offense but I'm pretty sure this is a discussion thread not a billboard for your personal fact maker, uhh.... I mean opinion. But other than that post away
Regards,
jwielage
http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/photolarge.ph ... =1102-3702axle wrote:3 Teams have lodged a protest. Renault, Ferrari and Redbull. BMW failed to lodge it's paperwork in time.
Interestingly, McLaren and it's associated team FIF1 arn't complaining...
From what I've read, McLaren and BMW are ready to run double decker arrangements and if my source is correct, FIF1 had one in the wind tunnel in January!
This seems a better picture of the (flimsy looking) cover:bonjon1979 wrote:http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/photolarge.ph ... =1102-3702axle wrote:3 Teams have lodged a protest. Renault, Ferrari and Redbull. BMW failed to lodge it's paperwork in time.
Interestingly, McLaren and it's associated team FIF1 arn't complaining...
From what I've read, McLaren and BMW are ready to run double decker arrangements and if my source is correct, FIF1 had one in the wind tunnel in January!
Diffuser hidden behind blanking plates. Axle's sources seem to be good!
(apologies, I can't seem to get the image tag to work so use the link)
will pull rod make RB have no space to copy that?Henning wrote:Sanity rules.
It's going to be VERY interesting to see what the other teams do now
Appeal.Henning wrote:Sanity rules.
It's going to be VERY interesting to see what the other teams do now
i'm expecting a long, drawn out fight from the cars without the diffuser.
It's rumoured that this is the case, along with the design of their gearbox.Scania wrote:will pull rod make RB have no space to copy that?Henning wrote:Sanity rules.
It's going to be VERY interesting to see what the other teams do now
Interesting post, but it does not stand up to scrutiny. If Bernie wanted to manipulate things to ensure a tight championship he would not have changed anything -- last year, under the old rules was as tight as you can get!jwielage wrote:I agree completely. The FIA should have been clarifying these rules early in winter testing to avoid such a situation.It's such a shame that a debate is even necessary.
The FIA should police the rules - and that should be the end of it.
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While I hate to be a conspiracy theorist but I think the origin of this dilemna can be traced back to the non FOTA powers in F1.
Bernie has a financial interest to see close racing and Championships that come down to the wire. In the last few years the title chase has come down to the final GP (I think Alonso had to score one point to gain the championship in Interlagos'06, but I could be wrong). Bernie loves this, it lines his pockets.
I think he wants to have an ace in the hole, in this case having parts ruled illegal to restores some type of competitive balance. The result is a longer title chase. Now there would have to be some dubious plot between Bernie and Max to orchastrate such a plan, however I think its possible. Think back to '06, why was Renault able to openly run their mass damper system only to have it deemed illegal after half of the GPs had been run? It just doesn't make sence.
Now I am not saying that this is something that regularly happens, or that F1 is fixed. I just think that some of the ambiguity and inconsistancies in how parts are deemed legal, and illegal can be used to benifit certain interests. And when those interested parties see an opertunity as a result of vauge rules they can use their weight to "make things happen" at just the precise moment.
