However, somebody like a Colin Chapman nowadays would be stuck in one position in a big team though, it's like a gaffer taking a Conference team to Premiership glory, 30-40 years ago it was likely but now nope.
I do agree motorsport as a whole is over regulated to the nth degree and its silly. There's an argument for wings as a safety innovation though, and can you imagine today's F1 without sponsors?
EDIT: Also I think Luca needs to take a look at Ferrari's history, they started out as a small F1 team themselves, so it's hypocritical. Yes 60 years down the line they are succesful, but back in 1949/50 they went up against the works Alfas and other teams
Who cares about Luca's rant anyway, it's the same nonsence over and over again. The medias must be really running of topics to keep their interrest on him, and still publish the same rant he kept saying for the whole season. That's sad.
So when a team uses team orders they can be fined 250,000 USD (As that's the new limit) and make the FiA some money. It's a brilliant rule change from the FiA's perspective.
As usual, these technical regulations are insanely hard to comprehend.
Basically, banned shark fins, beam wing slots, rear wing slots, double diffusers and exhaust blown diffusers, f-duct etc. So any of the new aerodynamics..
Edit: I just noticed a retarded way to create fake overtaking opportunities. It seems that race control will be able to control the drivers rear wing angle, so when they are less than 1 second behind another car on a straight they will lower the angle to allow overtaking. Who the hell thought of this?
i seem to recall the idea is that when they are within 1 sec then race control makes the drivers control of the rear wing operational, not that they automatically adjust the rear wing. basically it gives the driver the option of reducing drag if he wants it and presumably if they are allowed to operate it mid corner (wasn't very clear when i first saw the proposal) it will help redress the aero balance issues caused by the loss of front downforce when close behind another car, though if the loss of overall grip is balanced by better balance will i suspect depend on the bend, car and driver.
Awesome, finally a Belgian racing at Spa in a F1 again! Hope he can indeed perform, even though "it only is a Virgin". At the friday tests last year he was very close to more experienced Glock his pace. Curious how he'll do the actual racing!
Glad to see Virgin thinking ahead and on talent, instead of on money!
I highly doubt d'ambrosio isn't bringing some major sponsorship. Why would Virgin sack a guy like Di Grassi to have to re-invest time and resources bringing another rookie up to standard. It doesn't really make sense.
Indeed. It is a known fact that Gravity brought several millions to Virgin for D'Ambrosio.
Di Grassi has proven to be worthy in feeder series also. He probably had some issues with adaptation to F1 this year, but Virgin barely had enough ressources to focus on two cars at a time.
Quite an old idea, the kind of things that come up every X years(or more frequently nowadays, with Massa's and Surtees' crashes). But no one's ever implemented it in any single seaters series AFAIK.
I've wondered about it as well, what is the merit of open cockpit and open wheel racing, and why is it the pinnacle of motorsports? not that I have anything against it, but a closed cockpit is ultimately more aerodynamic and from a performance point of view, it is just that little bit more efficient, same goes to closed wheel. So why is open wheel racing regarded as the pinnacle of motor racing, it is perfectly possible to build a prototype-esque car just as fast as an F1 car, is it just historic reasons?
