Arabian Shites.Originally Posted by Ben
Works for circuits and personnel, given todays announcement.
Arabian Shites.
Works for circuits and personnel, given todays announcement.
I had a thought about this season recently. Current regulations mean that the worst teams get more time in Wind Tunnels/Testing etc. Would it not be beneficial with 2026 having massive rules/aero/performance changes to tank this season specifically to get more time in the lab. For a Ferrari/Red Bull/Mercedes, is it worth taking a 50 million quid bath so that you could then rule the first couple years under the new regs?
The same team has won every single year since it was introduced so I'd love to be in the meeting where someone suggested taking a £50m hit as a strategy for success.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1...s/c78x03252mpo
Lol if they actually dock someone (especially Max) championship points for swearing too much.
Didn't Brawn basically win a title on his own last time they made these changes?
Yeah, but they had the regulation cheat code. You don't get that from more time in the tunnel alone. Does that testing time difference even carry over between regulation changes?
If you were tanking wouldn't you also just dedicate all of your current season testing allowance to that as well? Which would all be spectacularly lol when you role out some big brain zero pods in Bahrain in 2026.
Last edited by niko_cee; 24-01-2025 at 11:48 PM.
I went to art school. I'm not even sure how much tunnel time even matters. I was just trying to big brain it.
However, now James Vaal or whatever his name is has revealed it, when a friend of mine who worked on their aero told me that the entire Williams factory and engineering worked off a single excel spreadsheet I'm not sure unlimited tunnel time would make up for that level of inbuilt inefficiency.
Honda invested hundreds of millions of pounds into the team first, then left after 2008 not knowing they'd built an absolute rocket ship, sold the team to Ross Brawn for a quid and presumably all jumped out a window when Jenson Button lolled his way through the first half of the season and won the title. Long time before any kind of cost cap of course, they won in 09 for the same reason anyone else has: spending a dickload of money the year before.
Brawn weren't the only ones with double-diffusers either. Fellow big spenders Toyota had them ready for the season, as did Williams.
The divers should be striking over that one, especially the no criticism bit.
No question they should. The idiot's got to go.
Aye, the top drivers especially hold all the power here. You going to have an F1 championship l without Verstappen, Leclerc, Hamilton and the like?
Doesn't sound like they're all that happy about it either.
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