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[Fred_C_Dobbs]

I cherry-picked this from the May 2011 print issue of F1 Racing magazine. It's from Jacques Villeneuve's monthly column, called Raw Neuve.

The lion's share of the article was JV ripping CURSE and DRS, which he concludes, "don't improve the show."

"...[P]ressing a button to overtake someone is not my idea of 'skill'."



But I especially liked the sidebar (actually, it was a 'bottom' bar, but there is no such term):


"We need to make F1 engines bigger"

"I see that Luca di Montezemolo and Bernie Ecclestone are against the idea of four-cylinder engines in 2013, and I agree. We need beefier engines so the cars are harder to drive and more impressive to watch. The noise of an F1 engine is unmistakable and we need to keep that.

"The reasoning behind the change seems to be environmental, but I'm not convinced 20 cars with smaller engines going around a track will make much difference. We should protect the environment by finding new technologies to apply to our road cars. Using existing technologies in F1 is pointless, and making F1 engines smaller? It might be good in terms of image, but it will do little for the environment, and ultimately be to the detriment of racing."



I must say, I agree on all points.

[stonemonkey]

I dunno, part of me thinks that some of the problem is that they're trying to make motor racing green with some connection to the real world but trying to cut spending at the same time, IMO motor racing could be the perfect platform for developing green technologies but it would cost, although the savings to the real world could outweigh that.
Give them a fixed amount of fuel(say roughly the amout they use just now) but give them completely free reign on the engine type/config/size and any energy recovery and see what they come up with.

[acosmichippo]

Give them a fixed amount of fuel(say roughly the amout they use just now) but give them completely free reign on the engine type/config/size and any energy recovery and see what they come up with.

that's an interesting thought. problem is the fuel load would vary greatly by track.

[spankyham]

Give them a fixed amount of fuel(say roughly the amout they use just now) but give them completely free reign on the engine type/config/size and any energy recovery and see what they come up with.

that's an interesting thought. problem is the fuel load would vary greatly by track.

I think it's a great way to free up teams to be creative - I did post the idea a while ago.

Every team gets an allocation of fuel at the start of every year, this is basically to cover testing. You make an efficient engine, you can do more testing.

At each race the teams are given another allocation of fuel, for the event, what they don't use of that allocation, they have to hand back.

You can basically throw away every other engine regulation.

[acosmichippo]

I like it, but then we might run into similar problems (in regards to the current pirelli situation) in Practice and Qualifying where teams would opt to run as little as possible in order to save fuel for the race.

[stonemonkey]

Every team gets an allocation of fuel at the start of every year, this is basically to cover testing. You make an efficient engine, you can do more testing.

Not sure about that, that would mean the teams that are ahead on that aspect would be the ones getting more test milage. It may be an incentive but would be unfair. I'm not meaning to make the sport appear to be green by having the teams burn less fuel throughout the season but instead to promote the development of green technologies with possible application in the real world where even a small saving could have a large impact.

At each race the teams are given another allocation of fuel, for the event, what they don't use of that allocation, they have to hand back.

we might run into similar problems (in regards to the current pirelli situation) in Practice and Qualifying where teams would opt to run as little as possible in order to save fuel for the race.

I would say have the fuel allocation for the race only.

You can basically throw away every other engine regulation.

I would still have restrictions on materials and possibly production (not including development) costs and keep the limit on number of engines per season.

[kerc]

Give them a fixed amount of fuel(say roughly the amout they use just now) but give them completely free reign on the engine type/config/size and any energy recovery and see what they come up with.

That's the kind of thing that would really turn F1 into the pinnacle of motorsports technology.

[darwin dali]

Give them a fixed amount of fuel(say roughly the amout they use just now) but give them completely free reign on the engine type/config/size and any energy recovery and see what they come up with.

That's the kind of thing that would really turn F1 into the pinnacle of motorsports technology.

But then reduce the fuel amount every year by a bit, say 10% - now THAT will keep innovation going!

[SennaVille]

No Jacques Villeneuve thread is complete without my favourite pic in F1 history



You may now continue your serious discussion....

[darwin dali]

No Jacques Villeneuve thread is complete without my favourite pic in F1 history



You may now continue your serious discussion....

Just to be fair and balanced:

[SennaVille]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!

Must restore equilibrium

[What's Burning?]

Ironically enough, of the two, we know who's banged the hottest chicks.

[f1ea]

I'd like to see the DRS gone and wider front tires with a smaller front wing. That's it... oh and V6s with some fuel economy regulation for the race (not related to testing and so on, after all, we only want to appear green). They may keep KERS and do whatever they please with it...

If memory don't fail me... think i've said this before.

So.. whomever agrees with me is smart and wise. Whomever doesn't, can go look at that Flavio pic for days on end. Except for DD, he's probably looking at it anyways....

[smokin]

I'd like to see the DRS gone and wider front tires with a smaller front wing. That's it... oh and V6s with some fuel economy regulation for the race (not related to testing and so on, after all, we only want to appear green). They may keep KERS and do whatever they please with it...

If memory don't fail me... think i've said this before.

So.. whomever agrees with me is smart and wise. Whomever doesn't, can go look at that Flavio pic for days on end. Except for DD, he's probably looking at it anyways....

I agree. I always wanted to be smart and wise. (And I never want to see that picture again. )