Originally Posted by
shabacash
I didn't even know that Bridgestone became the official and
only tire supplier for the coming seasons. This is definitely gonna suck. I wonder what the actual reasoning behind curbing engine development till 2018 is?
They should come out with diesel engines to make thing interesting.
5,000 rpm diesels droning past would really improve things
(wouldn't be quite that low, but still)
In fairness though, almost anything would be better than frozen development.
For all I care they could be out there with 1.5 V6s or I/V4s as long as they were allowed to tweak the engines and have more control over the materials used. I also don't really care what fuel is used, it's nice that what they use now is almost exactly the same as what is sold at the pump (Europe), but if they could get them to work on hydrogen (internal combustion, not fuel cell) or even natural gas or something like that, I don't think it would hurt interest.
The only positive is that the current engine configuration is pleasant to listen to IMO, had they frozen development with some lower revving turbo configuration, diesel, whatever, I wouldn't enjoy watching as much.