I believe the development and production cost of a new part only counts towards the cap once you've put in on the car in an official session. This is why they delayed the chassi last season. So theoretically if you don't believe you need a part that you've developed you could just not bring it and save that CC money for development on next year's car. Of course the man-hours and WT time you've spent can't be reclaimed, but if the part isn't changing the outcome of the season then that money is probably better spent on next year where the outcome is uncertain.organic wrote: ↑09 Jul 2023, 21:34Max said there were more things in the pipeline in a press conference at Baku I believe whilst grinning, so they've been cooking this next upgrade up for a long time. At this time they didn't know their advantage would be similar across track types and conditions, and didn't know how different teams' upgrades would pan out.AR3-GP wrote: ↑09 Jul 2023, 20:39Indeed. If RB were gamblers, they wouldn't bring another upgrade to this car. Max doesn't need to win any more races from this point on yet you know he'll still take a handful with the current spec car. He just needs podiums from here and he could take podiums at a canter when his car was actually worse in prior seasons.
Furthermore, if the new floor is already designed why would you not make the new floor spec rather than producing another old spec ? It would not cost much more to make a new spec. It's not like a mid-2023 floor could be saved for the rb20 as it'd be 8 months behind current development.. the only drawback would be a Monaco crash & crane incident that exposes your floor ideas, but I doubt this will happen in the remaining races frankly