[Fot] F1 practice

[Joe Curry]

In this case it is all about "the spirit of the rules" instead of "the
letter of the rules".  Mosley made it quite clear that the intent was to
limit the area of the diffusers in order to greatly decrease downforce and
thus to slow the cars down.  All but 3 teams worked around that intent but 3
did not and used a loophole to get a much greater amount of downforce.

During all the practices leading up to the first race, it was evident that
this was going to be an issue and it would not surprise me to find that The
other teams have been re-engineering the diffusers in anticipation of
possibility that the FIA would rule that Brawn et al were correct in their
application of the new rule.

The grid for this first race is indeed looking strange with the Toyotas sent
back to the back of the field for rear wing infringement and Hamilton losing
5 spots (from a 15th place qualifying spot) for gearbox replacement.

Joe C.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kas Kastner [mailto:kaskas at cox.net] 
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 8:59 AM
To: Joe Curry
Cc: fot at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] F1 practice

F-1 is weird, and the FIA. Isn't it just a bit strange that you have 
experienced technical advisers and scrutineers at the race track addressing 
a race car design issue, but then the problem must be decided in a board 
room by folks in neck ties, months after the decision had been made by said 
technical advisors and scrutineers on the spot.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Curry" <spitlist at cox.net>
To: "'MadMarx'" <tr4racing at googlemail.com>; "'FOT'" <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] F1 practice


> Lets wait until the FIA gets to have their say-so about the defuser issue.
> Either they will be ruled illegal or everyone else will be running the
> larger defusers and even out the field.
>
> But even so, it is great to see a private team doing so well.
>
> Joe C.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fot-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of MadMarx
> Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 5:30 AM
> To: 'FOT'
> Subject: [Fot] F1 practice
>
> Well done Brawn.
> Good to have a new front runner team. The cars look a little weird but 
> after
> a while we will get used to it.
>
> Chris
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