The FIA favours Ferrari?- Unthinkable!
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saxo-stew said:I was thinking that as I was reading, but if memory serves (I'll look it up shortly) the device in RCE was microwave based rather than resistive element.
i remember reading about this device a few months back in racecar engineering. they said that it was indeed a very good idea and worked very well, but was totally illegal in F1.
The “well the other teams can use them if they want” argument doesn’t wash here because the other teams don’t need it. It is only Ferrari who has the early lap’s cold tyre problem.
This and the Indy farce leads me to believe that a large amount of the politicking going on at the moment is to justify the FIA as using Bridgestone as the control tyre in the future.
They could never have done that earlier in the year as the majority of the teams were using Michelin and the Michelins were the better tyre.
Remember the FIA scuppered an attempt to get a control tyre for this year at the end of last when only Ferrari objected to it.
That this sort of thing can go on in open view on the world’s stage without a huge switch-off by the paying public amazes me. But then I suppose if I’m prepared to spend my time here reading and posting I shouldn’t be surprised.
BTW nice sensible thread, much better than the “Shumie is god” threads you get on grandprix.com.
This and the Indy farce leads me to believe that a large amount of the politicking going on at the moment is to justify the FIA as using Bridgestone as the control tyre in the future.
They could never have done that earlier in the year as the majority of the teams were using Michelin and the Michelins were the better tyre.
Remember the FIA scuppered an attempt to get a control tyre for this year at the end of last when only Ferrari objected to it.
That this sort of thing can go on in open view on the world’s stage without a huge switch-off by the paying public amazes me. But then I suppose if I’m prepared to spend my time here reading and posting I shouldn’t be surprised.
BTW nice sensible thread, much better than the “Shumie is god” threads you get on grandprix.com.
How this can happen without viewers switching off???...for the same reason our government(s) can get away with fleecing us of our civil liberties - the average Joe and Jo don't care about politics, and in many cases actively try to ignore it.
As for the FIA/Ferrari relationship...painfully obvious to this outsider (went off F1 years ago, watch only now when bored of ironing with TV off), and even more of a turn-off as a result...in almost every other sporting arena the rules are set and administered by an unbiased body, only in F1 does that body have major financial interests at stake and in common with one of the competitors!!!
As for the FIA/Ferrari relationship...painfully obvious to this outsider (went off F1 years ago, watch only now when bored of ironing with TV off), and even more of a turn-off as a result...in almost every other sporting arena the rules are set and administered by an unbiased body, only in F1 does that body have major financial interests at stake and in common with one of the competitors!!!
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