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sperry · 2009-03-17, 10:13 AM

Right...

What's the point of that? To keep the small guys in the hunt?

This reeks of SCCA street-tire factor. The FIA's gonna have to constantly manipulate the rules so the cheaper teams' cars are competitive w/ the spendy teams' cars. Which will negate the spendy teams from bothering to develop any cutting edge technology, and turns F1 into a spec-car series, which none of the big manufacturers and sponsors are going to care about competing in.

I think FIA's taking pages out of NASCAR's playbook too often. Spec cars and spending caps are terrible ideas when the series is pretty much all about advanced technology.

2009-03-17, 10:13 AM	#116
sperry The Doink Real Name: Scott Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 20,335 Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata Class: PDX/TT-6 The way out is through	Right... What's the point of that? To keep the small guys in the hunt? This reeks of SCCA street-tire factor. The FIA's gonna have to constantly manipulate the rules so the cheaper teams' cars are competitive w/ the spendy teams' cars. Which will negate the spendy teams from bothering to develop any cutting edge technology, and turns F1 into a spec-car series, which none of the big manufacturers and sponsors are going to care about competing in. I think FIA's taking pages out of NASCAR's playbook too often. Spec cars and spending caps are terrible ideas when the series is pretty much all about advanced technology. __________________ Is you is, or is you ain't, my con-stit-u-ints?