Originally Posted by Woodentop:
“Bernie Ecclestone is right. This engine is expensive and doesn't suit F1 or anyone. At last he's speaking the truth. All teams are angry about the increased costs and it only suits the team threatening to throw their toys out the pram, those that demanded it.
And what has it created? An uninteresting season of dominance and fake rivalry to try and manipulate an exciting finish! Having run for long periods in safety/economy mode is ridiculous and must be changed.”
The same could be said of pretty-much
every technology that F1 uses.
And, let's face it, if they
were still using V10s or V8s or V6s which, apparently, cost peanuts, all that'd happen would be that the teams with sufficient budgets would simply spend the remainder on
other clever bits, which the smaller teams couldn't afford, and you'd have exactly the same situation.
Bear in mind that Caterham and Marussia were always garbage regardless of the engine they were using and yet Williams were
also garbage for years and yet, somehow, even with the allegedly enormous expense and complexity of this year's engines, they're somehow
not garbage this year.
That would suggest the real problem is more related to either an inability or a lack of commitment to build a winning car rather than expense preventing a team from improving.
The
only way to ensure parity would be with a proper budget cap and, firstly, good luck enforcing that and, secondly, you still need to ensure F1 cars are faster than any other class.
In other news, I see Danny Ric' has gone all 70's porn-star.