Evening Meditations...

"Roberto G." (roberto-g)
05/12/2014 at 16:30 • Filed to: F1 CHAMPIONSHIP 2014

Tonight coming home from the office, I heard on the radio a story that left me very perplexed: if I well understood and in accordance with the present FIA regulations, should a team have now ready a new and better engine, (I make a name at random: Ferrari) well they can not use it, because it was not submitted by February 28. They must continue until the end of the championship with the current engine, and therefore with no hope of victory.

If all this is true, it's the biggest bullshit of this year, even worse than the bearded winner of the Eurovision Song Contest. Because when I started to love Formula 1, indeed it was a constant competition between the teams, to invent the most incredible technical innovations to improve the performance and the safety, so that many of those inventions were then passed on to production cars. Not any more! ...I do not know what Formula 1 has become and sincerely I regret less and less losing a race for something more fun.

Eventually, let me enjoy some sweet memories:

DISCUSSION (12)

For Sweden > Roberto G.
05/12/2014 at 16:32

It is BS, but Ferrari signed the Concorde Agreement. They have to just deal with it.

Roberto G. > For Sweden
05/12/2014 at 16:34

That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. And someone says that Ferrari is ruling the FIA.

Pockets > Roberto G.
05/12/2014 at 16:41

Meh, it's a reasonable tradeoff for cost purposes. It used to be the spend on engines was something like 50% of the entire budget. I'd rather they put restrictions in that allow more than 3 teams to show up rather than ones to balance out performance. It's not like they never used to ban stuff just because they felt like it, like active suspension.

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > Roberto G.
05/12/2014 at 16:41

Yes. Ferrari has the right to veto anything FIA says.

anonsagainstanonymous > Roberto G.
05/12/2014 at 16:42

Oi! Conchita sung a very good bond song.

mpa-burner2 > Roberto G.
05/12/2014 at 16:46

Dorna (MotoGP) did the same thing this year for the Factory bikes - engine specs had to be submitted, and nothing can be changed during the season. It's to keep costs low supposedly - they get 5 engines for 18 races - and can only run 20 liters of fuel. They get to run their own ECU and software.

Open bikes get 12 engines, and can continue developing the engine trough the year - they also get 24 liters of fuel, but must use the spec ECU and software.

it was supposed to build parity between Open and Facctory - and while the Open bikes get close in practice, in the races it's the Factory guys leading the races, and finishing on the podium except for one spot when Ducati (they're classified as "Open" until they get a certain amount of podiums) finished 3rd.

Roberto G. > mpa-burner2
05/12/2014 at 16:55

Thanks for the explanation, but of course I do not agree with the choice of forbidding any modification during the season, because (IMHO) this kills both fantasy and imagination. But what I know.

mpa-burner2 > Roberto G.
05/12/2014 at 17:14

Me too - and the way the system is setup, odds are the gap will not be closed. In '16 they're all supposed to use the spec ecu and software, but supposedly Honda may bail on the series.

Time will tell if there's any way the customer bikes will ever run with the factory bikes.

McChiken116 - Patrick H. > Roberto G.
05/12/2014 at 17:45

To be fair, this is for costs, not to freeze competition. Next year the engine game will be flipped on its head

Roberto G. > McChiken116 - Patrick H.
05/12/2014 at 18:59

Sure I'm dumb, but do you really think that Mercedes, Ferrari, Honda, BMW and Toyota would care about costs, in the face of a victory? If the others cannot spend as much, too bad for them. May be they should do another job. I still do not understand the real reasons that brough F1 to the present situation. And the environmental shit is just that: pure bullshit.

McChiken116 - Patrick H. > Roberto G.
05/12/2014 at 19:10

Say that to the new sponsors that have been lured back to the sport, due to the new more efficient rules

Roberto G. > McChiken116 - Patrick H.
05/12/2014 at 19:13

I repeat I may be dumb, but I always thought that sponsors like to support a winning car, not one that safely and efficently arrives to the finish one lap behind the winner...