- 01 Jul 11, 15:03#263638
Ok so with a million regulations limiting this sport it seems the FIA is trying to limit the potential of these race cars. The latest to be brought up is the engine mapping bans so that a team cannot change tunes between qualifying and the actual race. Every team can give the engine an "extreme" tune for qualifying therefore by allowing it, no team would be at a disadvantage. Every team has equal opportunity to give engine an extreme tune so to me this is ridiculous. Now they are implenting turbo V6 engines with a 15,000 RPM cap. Well my first thought is that they are trying to be more enviromentaly friendly. There is one thing that doesn't make sense though, these new engines will be allowed to have the same fuel flows as the v8's which would make them not any more efficient and or enviro friendly. Why are the engines shrinking but not required to burn less fuel? What the heck FIA???? A lot of their reasoning is supposed to be making the sport more affordable so new teams can come in. Here is a quote, "The fuel flow limit will stay the same. The technologies are the same and as a consequence any increase in rpm will constrain the engineers to work harder on reducing friction and gaining on engine efficiency. The challenge will be even bigger than originally planned and will therefore enhance the technological lead of Formula One." This sounds like this will cost even more money to get the engines to work at their peak rather then continue to use the V8's which all teams have already. Now they have to spend more on R&D for v6's. Not saving any money, FIA makes no sense to me. The cars should be able to keep their v8's which have already been shrunk down from v12s to v10s to the v8. They should not have aerodynamic regulations. If teams can make these cars move better through the air then why not. The only thing the teams should have to have is an excellent crash safety system and excellent driver protection. If they want to make the cars the ultimate (which to me is what F1 is) then they must have the best possible downforce, engine tunes, allow refueling, etc etc etc to do so, not limit the cars so they cannot perform to the max.