I wish some people would go read the proposed rules and regs rather then starting a massive witch hunt on it. you need to be two seconds behind to use it, if your going to wait until the last lap, your tyres, engine and car is gonna be all over the plavce due to keeping up with the leading car for so long in such turbulent dirty air.
Turbulance will be way down this year because the DDD is banned. Tyres engine etc will be worn basically the same for each car. Probably will become more of a contest as to who can conserve rather than who can race.
F1 drivers arent idiots or cowboys, i highly doubt they will risk even the last two laps to overtake someone, who is going to defend religiously if only cause of the cockiness of the car behind.
Check the rules you told us to read before you make this statement - drivers cannot perform "Manoeuvres liable to hinder other drivers, such as more than one change of direction to defend..." Basically guaranteeing a driver cannot defend his position.
There are only some places you can use it per lap, i believe the FIA have yet to designate these but i may be wrong. you cant just use it whenever you want.
Correct, it will be on the main straight, or, if there are 2 main straights, the Race Director will decide, at each race, which one will be used to the "magic-pass-button". Basically guaranteeing all overtaking will take place at the same point on each track.
Overtaking is hard enough without gimmicks, and im sure an extra 9 mph from a rear wing wont mean the pass is either guaranteed and/or boring.
The 9 MPH is based on the RW80 (F-Duct) as we knew it in 2010. But, think about this, the new method will be way more efficient than the RW80 was because it is actually opening the rear wing with physical movement rather than relying on an airflow to induce separation and thereby stalling the rear wing. As well as the separation benefit you will also get reduced drag. The biggest potential here is that this moving rear wing will work brilliantly.
And the biggest danger is that, being untested, no-one will know it until we are really racing. And, no matter how they try and amend the rules to compensate for the unknown results, it will be seen as favoring someone.
All KERS are team produced, some will be better then others whether both attackin and defending car use it on the straights.
KERS is not team produced. Like engines there are less KERS suppliers than teams. Mercedes, Magneti are probably the best known.
Lastly, have some god damn faith in the best tecnhnical engineers in the world, sure the team principals have been quoted as sceptical, but its only natura with something like this.
This would be the same sort of brilliant engineers that gave us the Tacoma-Narrows bridge or decided to use the new "green" Olympia ice resurfacers at the Vancouver winter Olympics last year?
Oh yeah and if they do turn out to ruin our beloved sport, ill eat all the humble pie you guys will feed me for such a rant. but im adamant it wont.
Your entitled to your opinion no matter which way it ends out and, in this post you've given some reasons why you think this way. I just can't ever believe that implementing something without a trial or test ever makes sense. Every decent engineer will agree with that.
Come to think of it i can't actually think of a recent situation whereby the two lead cars were together on track and ultimately showed themselves to have the same net pace...
You're completely missing the point if you think this will only effect cars that are circulating with the same lap times. This will effect any car that cannot pull a second lead over a following car within 1 lap. Now, go and have a look at last years lap times and see how many cars could lap within a second of the first 3 cars?
A car that cannot pull out a second lead within one lap is wasting time and energy trying because within the lap, the car behind will be given the power to catchup (and try to pass if he wanted). But I don't think the car in front will try to pull away - no incentive.
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