wtf? now the FIA are gonna restrict wind tunnel and CFD

[stew-S160]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/64312

i dont get it. why do they think everyone else is so stupid? constant change does not reduce cost.

now this, this is a joke. bmw-sauber have a 100% scale tunnel yes? and honda? so what do they do with them? just scrap them? what about bmw-saubers new super computer?

spec formula for 2010???

[Tim S]

I can't see how they'd ever police it.

[Ahonen]

stew-S160 said:

now this, this is a joke. bmw-sauber have a 100% scale tunnel yes? and honda? so what do they do with them? just scrap them?

Yep, scrap them and build 60% ones instead, which will save loads of money.

The idiocy of the FIA knows no bounds. It's like the Labour Party at the moment.

[belleair302]

The problem is that the technical council does not really consult wit the teams until its too late. The rules should be set by the manufacturers and the teams then passed onto the FIA for discussion before a vote. At the moment it is the cart leading the donkey.

[jimmystratos]

belleair302 said:

At the moment it is the cart leading the donkey.

Nope, the donkey is definitely making the rules at the moment!

[Casino]

whatever FIA try teams will just spend their R&D money elsewhere. If anything this
FIA interference breeds new areas of development. Max Mosley is the mother of invention. Well perhaps he's just a mother fu**** of invention.

Sorry Max yer ugly b/tard,(pic on planet f1) leave the sport alone.

[mark69sheer]

I would prefer wind tunnels scrapped to be honest they must be the most environmentally unfriendly devices known to man.
I would scrap the pooters too.
I'd love to go back to the seventies where every car looked different and progress was made by trying out different things.

[egomeister]

mark69sheer said:

I would prefer wind tunnels scrapped to be honest they must be the most environmentally unfriendly devices known to man.
I would scrap the pooters too.
I'd love to go back to the seventies where every car looked different and progress was made by trying out different things.

Progress is still made by trying out different things, just the tools now used are different.

As I said on another thread, if the FIA want to divert spending from aero development, they need to structure the rules such that more performance can be gained in other areas (whether that be recoverable energy or whatever).

Specifying how a team can operate goes against what F1 is about. By all means specify what rules the cars are built to, whether that be dimensional, material or whatever but don't tell the teams how they are allowed to reach that solution!

[anonymous-user]

Why don't they just give the teams a spec car and have done with it, that's practically what they're doing. Of course they'd then penalise McLaren for having the same car as Ferrari.

[Zod]

Mosley and crew are lunatics. F1 is supposed to serve as a laboratory for the development of new technology for road cars.