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[darwin dali]

The statement was part of a European Parliament report (CARS 21) that was adopted with 607 votes in favour, 76 against and 14 abstentions.

"The House therefore asks the FIA and others involved in Formula One to change their rules accordingly, so that environmentally friendly technologies like bio-fuels, four-cylinder engines or hybrid can be more easily applied," it read.


I really, really would like for Formula One to become a more open formula again. Do away with all those restrictions/parameters/technical regulations - 4 cylinders? Gimme a break!

Keep just a few regs that concern safety issues and have one overriding technical rule for the engine: do whatever you want with your engine, but you only get 50 liters of ethanol for the entire weekend. And the following year, it's gonna be 45 liters and so on.

[Stephen]

Well we are talking about the biggest threat to the future of the Earth and Humanity, well politicians that is. When will it all stop?

[racechick]

The statement was part of a European Parliament report (CARS 21) that was adopted with 607 votes in favour, 76 against and 14 abstentions.

"The House therefore asks the FIA and others involved in Formula One to change their rules accordingly, so that environmentally friendly technologies like bio-fuels, four-cylinder engines or hybrid can be more easily applied," it read.


I really, really would like for Formula One to become a more open formula again. Do away with all those restrictions/parameters/technical regulations - 4 cylinders? Gimme a break!

Keep just a few regs that concern safety issues and have one overriding technical rule for the engine: do whatever you want with your engine, but you only get 50 liters of ethanol for the entire weekend. And the following year, it's gonna be 45 liters and so on.

Yep agreed . And they could do away with their unpoliceable and unfair rules on cpoying things off other cars. Let them try and copy what they like! Its how things progress. They all get copied eventually anyway if the idea is any good. The only rule should be that you cat break the law(mm Toyota did ..but that was ok )If a team has a great new idea its their job to protect it. If another team get wind , thats fine but they'll be playing catch up. Sounds simple enough. except the FIA are invoved

[madbrad]

It's not really formula ONE when the displacement is already less than that in lower formulae, along with tires and wings getting narrower and ride heights higher, durability standards that effectively reduce performance, The bosses trying to slow down the cars, Doesn't slowing down the cars defeat the purpose of racing? I could go on all day. So homogenized. Maybe one day the EU and other bodies will outaw the use of motorcars for such superfluous duties as sport and entertainment. They may as well do it now.

[Jabberwocky]

in 10 years time the front wing will have to be 5 meters off the ground, wings 2mm deep and the engines 50cc, oh and have to be 1000 kgs because of all the extra safety in the cars

[al4x]

i think a capped budget or something around the levels of the middle teams and then very very few regulations, see who uses the money best!

[darwin dali]

Caps could be very difficult to police/enforce - see MT's recent comments on caps.
E.g. a lot of testing/development costs could be outsourced to partner companies such as Brembo or Shell or whatever, which would help the team remain below the cap. In other words, sponsor contracts could get rewritten so that the sponsors don't actually fork over money (which would show in the team's books) or only a nominal amount for their ad space, but where they would deliver 'free' product development, e.g., in a wind tunnel or metallurgical research of new alloys and what not.

[al4x]

yeah it would be difficult, shame, i think itd make things far more exciting!

would you pick a good driver, concentrate on the aero etc

[bud]

cap the amount of modifications you can make to the car say for example a total of 10 modifications from january until the last race of the year. be it any form of advancment from the fuel to the chassis, this will take away technology partners getting under the radar as any changes to the car will be seen in scrutineering at GP weekends.

[darwin dali]

Not so - you could still spend way more on those 10 mods than another team if your partners foot the bill and thus, bypass the cap. And it's a truism that more money usually gets you better quality - the obvious exception being Toyota

[bud]

not true if each modification has the FIA going over the spendature, and if its shown that a "partner" is spending the coin then its illegal and say for example if Shell is testing aero parts somethings up there huh.
just put a freeze on supplier components such as oil and brakes just as they have with engine development.

[McLaren Fan]

There are 700 million cars in the world in use everyday. By 2020 it's predicted there will be over a billion. There are 22 Formula One cars in the world used several days a week all year. Go figure.

[al4x]

imagine what toyota/honda would be like with less money!!

i really dont like the freezing side, the way things are going we will end up with bicycles

[darwin dali]

or roller skates!

[7UpJordan]

This is getting stupid, it won't take 2 seconds for Max to come out saying "using V4's is the best idea ever since the wheel".