yeah, it was just a bad joke.
Anyway, I was watching FP3 just now, and one of the commentary guys made an interesting point. He said why can't the FIA just force the teams to use whatever engine modes they used in 2009 (before anyone had EBD's)? Engines are frozen in development anyway, so what's all the fuss about?
Spot on. Teams trying to argue they suddenly "need" these extreme overruns for engine reliability, how on earth did they manage back in 2008 and 2009?
And, if they really did need it, then, simply stop pointing the exhaust for an aero advantage and I'm sure the FiA won't have a problem.
Didn't they always use an overrun? It's just its become so important now, that the aerodynamic effect can no longer be ignored by the FIA, just cut it down.
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They better not bloody scrap it, no one was protesting this back in Valencia, they knew this was coming!
I don't see why the FIA should give a stuff for teams that rely heavily on their overrun if the overrun itself was never meant to be relied on for an aerodynamic effect (and it wasn't). I'll go all the way back to Sauber, they argued that breaking the rules was an accident and didn't give them a performance advantage, they still got disqualified. So by doing that, the FIA stated it wasn't their concern if a team is negatively affected by being penalised for breaking the rules - even if they got away with breaking the rule previously (like Sauber did by passing scrutineering).
Article here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula ... 092523.stm"Those that end up at the front will probably end up happy and those that are disadvantaged won't be, and Ferrari seemed to come out of the meeting more smiling than some others. It all sounds very small but they affect many parts on the car. Some people will luck in and some won't."
, But you don't get any points for being nice and helpful Stefano. Maybe start of with the horse whisperer calling the FIA cowards for allowing teams to break the rules.
I don't think at anypoint Horner or Whitmarsh have insisted that the FIA are technically incorrect, in trying to limit the overrun as it is against the regulations. The argument seems to be, well you allowed us before, don't pull the rug under our feet now.
Whitmarsh has kicked off about redbull being allowed 50% off throttle, so Horner rather majestically countered by saying - alright we'll stick to the 10% only for this race, then after we'll go back the way it was in Valencia (i.e. the regulations that Redbull have been dominating this season under). Whitmarsh can't argue with that, as it seems McLaren are closer to redbull with no restrictions on off throttle blowing, than by equal restrictions applying to Mercedes and Renault engines (Ferrari too).
Ferrari on the other hand, seem to be the biggest winners with the limitations on exhaust blowing as they use it the least, so unless they have massive changes in the pipline to optimise the car for it, I don't see why they don't play what I'd say is the most moral card of them all. The massive overruns are against the rules, restrict them. It isn't anyone elses problem that teams will suffer as they were making use of something that was illegal.
