Scotracer wrote:Try to not be melodramatic about this is hard.
F1 has been killed....
we had the same kind of complaints when V12s, V10s and V8s with 19.500 rpm were abolished. perhaps those who are young enough to be able to hear the differences will quickly ruin their aural capability by listning to live engine sound anyway.
It is the balanced package that was largely expected. of course refuelling ban 2010 is great news. no more race fuel Q3 with this, I guess.
They left the KERS untouched for 2009 and hopefully by the middle of the year it will be clear that it will need to be developed competitively to make progress. The two different storage solutions will be intriguing to watch in competition. I cannot imagine that peole want to suppress the engineering race for those things.
Hopefully Cosworth will get some customers to keep the manufacturers honest, but I would not hold my breath on that.
Some of the resource restrictions are so wishy washy that they are hardly worth the paper they are printed on. But it is now clear that the economic crisis and the imbalance of funding that started more than 10 years ago will be addressed by low power train prices and resource restrictions. Finally, after years of dithering a decision for a method is agreed and will be implemented. So we have a start. Again a good thing. Much better than endless talk wihout action.
The equalizing decision for the Renault engine was a bit dissapointing because the teams will never stop to manipulate the engines. Close loop control of torque profile and rev limt would have put an end to this manipulations. Instead we have injectors and trumpets as the next "unfrozen" field for manipulations. No doubt next season we will have new complaints about that and the "unfreeze" will move to yet another field to keep us entertained in 2010.
