[Fot] F1 practice

[Kas Kastner]

If you are going to enforce "spirit of the rules" and not the letter of the 
regulation then what is point of printing the rules?

You cannot enforce spirit of anything. Those having the different diffusers 
were not present for the meetings for establishment of the regulations which 
were written. That is written, not just talked about nor spirit related. 
They, the three teams, on their own, in their inspection of the WRITTEN 
regulations determined that a certain manner of modification to the area was 
possible. When three independent companies  who are not in commerce with 
each other,  develop this same point of the regulations, then the regulation 
must be open to that interpretation. Others should just follow and shut up 
as they missed the opening. Write a more precise regulation next year.

After you have been proven guilty of an infraction of the regulations, then 
perhaps spirit can be brought into the conversation when determining the 
penalty for this infraction.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Curry" <spitlist at cox.net>
To: "'Kas Kastner'" <kaskas at cox.net>
Cc: <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 9:10 AM
Subject: RE: [Fot] F1 practice


> 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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