Official 2020 Austrian & Styrian Grand Prix Thread *Spoilers
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JonChalk said:
What is it with the ongoing bulls
t about a protest against RP (even if it is only in Crofty's lowest-common-denominator-driven drivel)?
There is nothing to protest.
If other teams don't like the approach RP (and Haas) have taken within the rules, then they are free to leave the sport.
Boo-hoo: a team you've previously derided as a mid-to-low order team have done something right, technically, and now they're better than you. Suck it up, buttercup.
I guess the criticism is more about the philosophy of the sport. If the lower down innovative teams pull out then all you are left with is three top teams and everyone else just copies their last year's car.t about a protest against RP (even if it is only in Crofty's lowest-common-denominator-driven drivel)?There is nothing to protest.
If other teams don't like the approach RP (and Haas) have taken within the rules, then they are free to leave the sport.
Boo-hoo: a team you've previously derided as a mid-to-low order team have done something right, technically, and now they're better than you. Suck it up, buttercup.
F1 was meant to be about innovation. I found the DAS very exciting when it was first shown because it's rare nowadays to see that level of innovation in F1
leef44 said:
I guess the criticism is more about the philosophy of the sport. If the lower down innovative teams pull out then all you are left with is three top teams and everyone else just copies their last year's car.
I suspect even Racing Point would agree that it's ridiculous that copying last year's title winning car is the best way for them to produce a competitive car this year, but it is what it is and it appears to be entirely within the rules. You can't really legislate against copying ideas from other teams, so the only way to solve the problem is to make budgets equal enough that even the small teams can produce a better car of their own than the previous year's winner. I suppose the RP argument is that teams are supposed to create their own IP. This is muddied because teams can buy items of the shelf from other teams, and more and more it makes sense to buy groups of parts (engine, then gearbox to match, then rear suspension pickups tend to be fixed, then aerodynamics need to take into account suspension locations and philosophy, and so on).
If you measured the surfaces of the RP no doubt they'd be different to the 2019 Mercedes, so although it's a close copy, it's not a straight carry-over of that car.
Teams only tend to moan about these things when they're behind the copier, unsurprisingly.
If you measured the surfaces of the RP no doubt they'd be different to the 2019 Mercedes, so although it's a close copy, it's not a straight carry-over of that car.
Teams only tend to moan about these things when they're behind the copier, unsurprisingly.
RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:
I suppose the RP argument is that teams are supposed to create their own IP. This is muddied because teams can buy items of the shelf from other teams, and more and more it makes sense to buy groups of parts (engine, then gearbox to match, then rear suspension pickups tend to be fixed, then aerodynamics need to take into account suspension locations and philosophy, and so on).
If you measured the surfaces of the RP no doubt they'd be different to the 2019 Mercedes, so although it's a close copy, it's not a straight carry-over of that car.
Teams only tend to moan about these things when they're behind the copier, unsurprisingly.
Unless they purchased their old molds If you measured the surfaces of the RP no doubt they'd be different to the 2019 Mercedes, so although it's a close copy, it's not a straight carry-over of that car.
Teams only tend to moan about these things when they're behind the copier, unsurprisingly.
Zoobeef said:
RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:
I suppose the RP argument is that teams are supposed to create their own IP. This is muddied because teams can buy items of the shelf from other teams, and more and more it makes sense to buy groups of parts (engine, then gearbox to match, then rear suspension pickups tend to be fixed, then aerodynamics need to take into account suspension locations and philosophy, and so on).
If you measured the surfaces of the RP no doubt they'd be different to the 2019 Mercedes, so although it's a close copy, it's not a straight carry-over of that car.
Teams only tend to moan about these things when they're behind the copier, unsurprisingly.
Unless they purchased their old molds If you measured the surfaces of the RP no doubt they'd be different to the 2019 Mercedes, so although it's a close copy, it's not a straight carry-over of that car.
Teams only tend to moan about these things when they're behind the copier, unsurprisingly.
Stan the Bat said:
Zoobeef said:
RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:
I suppose the RP argument is that teams are supposed to create their own IP. This is muddied because teams can buy items of the shelf from other teams, and more and more it makes sense to buy groups of parts (engine, then gearbox to match, then rear suspension pickups tend to be fixed, then aerodynamics need to take into account suspension locations and philosophy, and so on).
If you measured the surfaces of the RP no doubt they'd be different to the 2019 Mercedes, so although it's a close copy, it's not a straight carry-over of that car.
Teams only tend to moan about these things when they're behind the copier, unsurprisingly.
Unless they purchased their old molds If you measured the surfaces of the RP no doubt they'd be different to the 2019 Mercedes, so although it's a close copy, it's not a straight carry-over of that car.
Teams only tend to moan about these things when they're behind the copier, unsurprisingly.
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RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:
I suppose the RP argument is that teams are supposed to create their own IP. This is muddied because teams can buy items of the shelf from other teams, and more and more it makes sense to buy groups of parts (engine, then gearbox to match, then rear suspension pickups tend to be fixed, then aerodynamics need to take into account suspension locations and philosophy, and so on).
If you measured the surfaces of the RP no doubt they'd be different to the 2019 Mercedes, so although it's a close copy, it's not a straight carry-over of that car.
Teams only tend to moan about these things when they're behind the copier, unsurprisingly.
I would hazard a guess that it is only the visible surfaces that are very similar. I imagine that the packaging and undersurfaces are somewhat different and are fully RP’s IP. If you measured the surfaces of the RP no doubt they'd be different to the 2019 Mercedes, so although it's a close copy, it's not a straight carry-over of that car.
Teams only tend to moan about these things when they're behind the copier, unsurprisingly.
The problem is that idiots like Croft, can see the bleeding obvious and then set about creating a conspiracy theory to keep himself and SKY in the spotlight.
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