Renault has appealed to the FIA for clarification of the new anti-copy rules. Renault team boss Cyril Abiteboul confirmed that the FIA had responded to the request. With the new rules, teams are no longer allowed to take over the designs of rival teams.
Copying rules
According to RaceFans.net, Renault's questions mainly concern teams using the same wind tunnel, such as Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri. Renault also asked about copying so-called 'Listed Team Components' [LTC]. These are components that are designed, manufactured and used by a single team.
Renault also went deeper into this LTC and wondered to what extent one team could copy the other. For example, whether the general concept can be copied from a rival.
Reaction public soon
"Up until a certain point these communications with the FIA are confidential matters. but we expect that at some point they will become public material", says Abiteboul. According to Abiteboul, it is important that every team is well informed. "We believe that they are very important for any team to make sure they comply with the stance of the FIA on these things after obviously the precedent of this year and the controversy of this year. We have had a response from Nikolas. He is in the process of turning that into something more formal that can then become public."
Cyril's inquiry wants the FIA to make sure RBR and Alpha Tauri don't copy their cheating ways...
Or anybody else. If I was at Williams I’d be pissed I didn’t get a crack at driving last years Mercedes too. And I’m sure Haas and Alfa would enjoy a last year Ferrari. Ok, maybe not so much Ferrari. But unless they stop it cold, right now, it’ll turn F1 into a version of Indy Car; 3 engine choices with 4 chassis choices.
Or maybe I’m wrong and that would help F1, and possibly become a more economical model with better racing?
Correct!
The FIA dies not know if they must be saving costs or be politically correct.
This has become a series of liers cheaters and thieves...the racing is an afterthought and entertainment..what a shame.
Indycar has only one good engine (Honda)
F1 has simply to rewind the tape.
Most of the changes got the opposite effect they wanted, but denying it happened, new wrong rules or devices were addes, worsening the situation.
The biggest mistake, probably a lethal one, has been the hybrid PU, which turned F1 to be good for constructors only (huge expenses, huge money losses, group knowdlegde necessary).
F1 need a simpler but powerful engine architecture, a company like Cosworth can decide to product and sell with profit.
Another huge mistake is bad tyres and low fuel, a wrong direction, which lead to "slow" lap times (drivers cant't race, in short) and extreme strategy by engineers, with drivers... driven.
To many rules brought to humiliate ideas (low cost) and skyrocketed hyper expensive refining, another handycapp given to smaller non constructors teams.
Reducing real test to a few, is another (expensive) gift to constuctors, who can benefit refined and expensive symulators, and hiding costs (budget cap another announced failure) into some non racing department of their group.
How very very true. The PU was the worst decision ever made. Also if one looks back forced induction engines have been a lot more powerful than the current crop. The BRM V16 (1.5 litre )was eventually screwed up to over 15BHP on a test bench and who can forget the Ferrari twin turbo 1.5 litre V6 that would put out upto 1600 bhp with the boost turned. up.
Currently it seems some people know how to adjust the boost manually which makes it farcical.
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