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[bud]

and under the table spending will be rampant

[McLaren Fan]

turbo's................... the FIA could control boost!

Turbos would also make the cars more challenging to drive. Drivers would have to keep the engine revs up, be way of the turbo coming to life on straights and corners etc.

[McLaren Fan]

and under the table spending will be rampant

Again, that will be another big problem. There's nothing to stop teams going to people outside of Formula One and asking them to conduct some private research. There's a risk that the guy could squeal to the FIA, I suppose, but I'm sure teams could keep them sweet. Ferrari could threaten to get them whacked, for instance.

[bud]

turbo's................... the FIA could control boost!

Turbos would also make the cars more challenging to drive. Drivers would have to keep the engine revs up, be way of the turbo coming to life on straights and corners etc.

spool her up

[scotty]

turbo's................... the FIA could control boost!

Turbos would also make the cars more challenging to drive. Drivers would have to keep the engine revs up, be way of the turbo coming to life on straights and corners etc.

That would be awesome. Although imagine a modern F1 car with a turbo engine in qualifying... if the 1.5l turbo engines could develop 1200bhp(approx) in qualifying in the 80's, imagine how fast they'd be now!

[7UpJordan]

They used to quite often clock around 350kph back in 1986 when the Turbo era was at its prime (before the boost pressure being decreased for 1987 and 1988) and they used to run with no "special trimmed down rear wings" for Hockenheim and Monza etc.

[texasmr2]

Boost baby boost, that's where it's at!!!

[f1usa]

Costs could have held down by never introducing KERS. But a common engine, that sounds like IndyCar. Who besides Max is behind this common engine BS.

[digitaleye]

Mosley has his head in his arse.

A common engine....in Formula 1? Sure, lets just rename the season....we could call it Formula Mazda or Formula Ford. Hey, lets let amateur drivers run as well....we could have the entire thing regulated by SCCA too.

What a rediculous joke of a suggestion. That guy should be taken out back and horsewhipped...again. He clearly has no idea what Formula 1 is supposed to represent. Let me put it this way, if they did what he suggests I am quite certain I am not the only F1 fanatic who would completely ignore F1 in the future. I can watch (and compete in) sealed motor series right here at home.

Agreed completely. We've already got that here in the US and frankly its a bit dull to see a field of 20+ identical cars buzzing around with only the decals and helmet designs to differentiate them.

[f1ea]

A standard engine? That's a stupid idea.
One thing is to have a REGULATED engine... and a whole different concept is to have a standard engine. I'm sure there are much better ways to save money.

[darwin dali]

I don't really care about budget caps for certain items. I still say: completely free up engines and their specs to whatever the teams want to do. HOWEVER, restrict the amount of fuel available per race and decrease it every season. Engineers, have at it! Develop those fuel saving engines so that we'll have some benefits in our cars as well. The goal obviously would be to drive sans fossil fuels eventually, but on renewable and affordable and environmentally sound fuels.

[Jabberwocky]

I think that you would have to limit and specifiy the fuel. just incase you get the scenario of, well we use one litre of fuel for the whole race but it is rocket fuel

[darwin dali]

I think that you would have to limit and specifiy the fuel. just incase you get the scenario of, well we use one litre of fuel for the whole race but it is rocket fuel

There are already strict fuel rules in terms of composition of it. They're meant to reflect the situation in Europe re. what type of fuel is being used in motorists' cars. I would keep those rules and maybe down the road change them to include alternatives that will become increasingly available for everybody such as hydrogen, etc.

[Kiwi_Chris]

So Max wants a standard engine?... so he wants teams to build their own cars but have the same engine? im getting mixed signals from the FIA

[McLaren Fan]

From F1 Live:

Max Mosley has defended his shock news that he favours a common engine era for Formula One.

The FIA president told the French sports daily L'Equipe this week that the move, also alongside standard suspensions and gearboxes, would put a lid on costs and also make teams' research more road-relevant.

"F1 should not lose its status for technological excellence," he agrees, "but it has to be investing in useful technologies."

"I know there are those who say it is not the right move, but I am talking about the real world."

"If Volkswagen can buy an engine (for a road car) less expensively (than to build one), they will undoubtedly do that. After they put the VW badge on it, it's all the same. This is a reasonable way to view the business. Unless we think very seriously about cutting costs, in the next ten years we will be in trouble," Mosley said.

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Source: GMM

The answer is still no! Clear off, Mosley.