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Y-Ssin zei:Tragisch, sterkte aan de nabestaanden...
Al bekend om welke wagen het ging? Die van Gutierrez misschien?
Tot en met Barcelona was toch zo? Monaco en Canada zijn buitenbeentjes, we zullen zien wat Silverstone geeft. Daar gaat Alonso wel weer voor de overwinning gaan vermoed ik.Dillyracer zei:Vettelfans zijn zich al aan het voorbereiden om op het einde van het seizoen te kunnen melken over hoe Vettel een kampioenschap wint met een mindere wagen dan de concurrentie blijkbaar.
Dillyracer zei:Vettelfans zijn zich al aan het voorbereiden om op het einde van het seizoen te kunnen melken over hoe Vettel een kampioenschap wint met een mindere wagen dan de concurrentie blijkbaar.

Dillyracer zei:Vettelfans zijn zich al aan het voorbereiden om op het einde van het seizoen te kunnen melken over hoe Vettel een kampioenschap wint met een mindere wagen dan de concurrentie blijkbaar.

Scifo zei:Zo'n frustratieposts lees ik graag :applause:![]()
Dillyracer zei:Whatever floats your boat.
Het boeit mij nochtans weinig wie er dit seizoen kampioen gaat worden.
Now for some goings on:
You probably heard about the four more 2day tests starting next year. Here is the low down.
The large teams extorted the small teams to agree. They had to take the vote twice to get the result they hoped for. Bernie supports the idea due to pressure from RBR and FER.
On the first vote Merc, LOT, FOI, WIL, TOR and CAT voted against. On the second vote Merc changed their stance - I don´t know yet why.
The problem is, eight more test days cost about 10 mil more (testing team, another chassis, 1 mil per engine used). The small teams are money strapped as it is, and this could be the final straw. To put this in numbers: Experts estimate the fixed costs to run a F1 team a full season at 65 mil. This means, that f.i. Marussia with a budget of 70 mil has about 5 mil to spend on development for the full season. FOI with 80 mil budget has 15. So 10 mil more would clearly force teams to the brink, or even over the cliff.
So why did SAU and MAR vote for this, and not against? Because FER would have raised the engine costs for this teams, so basically bought/coerced their votes.
The big teams in return agreed to limit wind tunnel testing from 40 to 30 hours a week, computer capacity from 40 to 30 teraflops, and the possibility to exchange test days 1:1 into wind tunnel hours.
These are restrictions, that are impossible to verify. For example:
Wind tunnel hours only count upwards of 15m/s wind speed. Teams already interpret the wind tunnel warmup very differently. RBR only counts wind tunnel hours when the thing runs at full speed, arguing that their wind tunnel is so old that it takes very long until its at full speed.
In the end that's the main strategy of RBR, accepting many small and almost impossible to verify regulations, instead of one big regulation like the financial cap that had been discussed.
In this context is also Dr. Markos interview, where he stated that he wants Merc to be severely punished, otherwise they´d never agree to a cap.
So why do the big teams do this all? The thinking is, they are killing the small teams on purpose. The plan is, to force the small teams out of building their own cars, and selling them chassis. For the big fish that's the only way to justify the bloated teams of up to 600 people - which they couldn´t keep within a financial cap.
IMHO the result of this policy would destroy the sport. The number of chassis manufacturers would decrease very fast, as no team would want to buy a "slow" chassis. We would have a situation where teams would either switch chassis midseason, even several times; or teams bound to longterm contracts, forcing them to drive behind for years.
Just look at the IndyCar series of the late 80s early 90s.