FIA: F1 Engine Development Banned for 10 Years
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FIA: F1 Engine Development Banned for 10 Years
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Looks like Mosley and the FIA want to turn the once innovative F1 into a carbon-fiber, open-wheel NASCAR league.
Absolute idiocy if you ask me.
The World Motor Sport Council of the FIA, the international racing authority that governs Formula One, among other series, has rolled out a series of restrictions on the development of F1 cars starting with the coming 2008 season.
The restrictions include a complete freeze on engine development for the next ten years.
In a speech delivered last week in Monaco at the Motor Sport Business Forum, FIA President Max Mosley justified the decision by pointing out that the engines developed by F1's six engine suppliers – Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW, Honda, Toyota and Renault – are already evenly matched and incredibly advanced: "There is no need to develop an F1 engine any further." (Heck, let's go back to foot-powered Flinstones-mobiles then.)
The far-reaching restrictions also covered the use of wind-tunnels for the first time in the formula. The new regulations state that each team can only use one wind-tunnel, can only operate it for 15 runs per 8-hour day, no more than five days per week. Further limitations were set on how the wind-tunnel may be used, and to prevent teams from simply switching their personnel over to even more expensive Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulators, the FIA intends to put a cap on that, too.
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The restrictions include a complete freeze on engine development for the next ten years.
In a speech delivered last week in Monaco at the Motor Sport Business Forum, FIA President Max Mosley justified the decision by pointing out that the engines developed by F1's six engine suppliers – Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW, Honda, Toyota and Renault – are already evenly matched and incredibly advanced: "There is no need to develop an F1 engine any further." (Heck, let's go back to foot-powered Flinstones-mobiles then.)
The far-reaching restrictions also covered the use of wind-tunnels for the first time in the formula. The new regulations state that each team can only use one wind-tunnel, can only operate it for 15 runs per 8-hour day, no more than five days per week. Further limitations were set on how the wind-tunnel may be used, and to prevent teams from simply switching their personnel over to even more expensive Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulators, the FIA intends to put a cap on that, too.
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Absolute idiocy if you ask me.
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Yep. And he's going to take the fall when this measure fails.
Trying to cap the cost of racing at the expense of innovation will sap the lifeblood out of F1. Granted, less extreme measures have been used since the 60s, but the FIA has now crossed the line into bat-shit crazy.
My bet is attendance will plummet, advertisers will fume and this freeze will be repealed before the end of the decade.
Trying to cap the cost of racing at the expense of innovation will sap the lifeblood out of F1. Granted, less extreme measures have been used since the 60s, but the FIA has now crossed the line into bat-shit crazy.
My bet is attendance will plummet, advertisers will fume and this freeze will be repealed before the end of the decade.
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F1 will no longer be the ultimate in the latest bleeding edge in motorsports technology. This may also guarantee that it will be another Ferrari/MB dominated seasons for the next 10 years. If engine and aerodynamics development are frozen and for the tires there is only 1 supplier. Talk about boring, it's gonna be like watching spit dry.
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F1 will no longer be the ultimate in the latest bleeding edge in motorsports technology. This may also guarantee that it will be another Ferrari/MB dominated seasons for the next 10 years. If engine and aerodynamics development are frozen and for the tires there is only 1 supplier. Talk about boring, it's gonna be like watching spit dry.
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.
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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.
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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.
(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.
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thats a stupid rule for F1!
i mean F1 is supposed to be the cutting edge of racing technology, and if some companies cant keep up with the cost then it is up to them to find innovative ways to create something better that costs less. <-- thats where new technologies are created.
i dunno just my $.02
i mean F1 is supposed to be the cutting edge of racing technology, and if some companies cant keep up with the cost then it is up to them to find innovative ways to create something better that costs less. <-- thats where new technologies are created.
i dunno just my $.02