Red Bull Racing's technical chief Adrian Newey has admitted to concern that the new lower nose regulations introduced in Formula One may have uninentionally made driver safety worse.
Market research? What for? It will be the same story like with medal system… Bernie, please find yourself new hobby…db__ wrote:Possible reduction in race distance or duration (proposal to follow market research).
'Taxed' being driver or Technical Directorscarbs wrote:I don’t think £30m is that far from the right figure, for a Revenue budget.
Of course the capital costs to set up a team (factory equipment etc) would need to be excluded from this figure, but with ‘teams’ for sale at less than £60m this still isn’t an insurmountable amount (Given a very rich investor).
Of course there’s the option to get an existing team or manufacturer (Prodrive, Dallara, Lola, Formtech) to build the car, this might bring the capital costs down to around tenth of that.
Up until now a small team budget is estimated at £40m, is you drop a lot of highly paid engineers and the running costs for design and manufacturing kit, this sounds reasonable.
Does f1technical.net have a millions reader each with thirty pounds (or 30 with a million pounds?), Lets go racing!
well, I guess they'll be testing around the block from the factory. run a few red lights, but hey, the budget can spare $1000 worth of fines here and there.Scotracer wrote:I've always wanted a budget cap but 30mil is FAR too low in my opinion. Isn't the "test cap" 175mil Euros this year?
I guess it's these pieces that they are talking about but I'm not sure if they've changed, they're referring to bodyowrk behind the rear wheelsDragonfly wrote:Guys, on the AS forum people are wondering whether the latest amendments to the rules for 2009 outlaw Williams, Toyota and BGP style diffusers.
Can anyone comment this for the ordinary mortals?
Please, somebody tell me this does not mean the reintroduction of the 107% rule again. Please! I hated that rule.Bernie, MR E himself wrote:I want to see pre-qualifying again. I want 26 people on the grid, of which 16 are competitive.
jddh1 wrote:Please, somebody tell me this does not mean the reintroduction of the 107% rule again. Please! I hated that rule.Bernie, MR E himself wrote:I want to see pre-qualifying again. I want 26 people on the grid, of which 16 are competitive.
I just don't want to have 26 cars travel to Australia and then after a couple of days 4 of them to be told not to race. That would be a waste of money and resources that goes against the spirit of what Bernie is trying to do.Dragonfly wrote:I see nothing wromg with that. It's good to have more entries than the starting grid currently allows. And they can prequalify for their spots by lap times order. 107% rule not necessary to be applied.
The grids are allowed to be at 24 teams thus far and I believe reading about Max looking into adding 2 more slots for 26 cars. The more cars the betterjddh1 wrote:I just don't want to have 26 cars travel to Australia and then after a couple of days 4 of them to be told not to race. That would be a waste of money and resources that goes against the spirit of what Bernie is trying to do.Dragonfly wrote:I see nothing wromg with that. It's good to have more entries than the starting grid currently allows. And they can prequalify for their spots by lap times order. 107% rule not necessary to be applied.
