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So apparently Red Bull has admitted it is them and will be making changes to the RB20. My understanding is that the adjustment capability is not specifically illegal. What other teams (and FIA) are concerned about is that with the location for making the adjustment being in the cockpit, that it allows for potential easy of breaking parc ferme rules. This is apparently not a driver control, but the fear is that an engineer could easily covertly adjust without anyone noticing while in parc ferme. In short, no proof of cheating, but calls to alter to prevent potential for cheating. Who knows if anything was done against rules previously or not. Probably impossible to prove one way or another at this point. Richard |
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Mike, don't you ink they all are naughty boys and girls?
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Selfishly I am glad it's not McLaren as I think their resurgence has been a good thing for the championship (and F1 in general). So I would have hated to see their upsurge be down to something potentially sketchy and a FIA crackdown potentially reversing their recent form.
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One team has an adjuster that is completely legal to use in practice sessions but which "might" allow the odd sleight of hand adjustment in Parc Ferme. The team says it isn't accessible once the car is assembled (as it is in Parc Ferme) and the FIA hasn't seen it being used in Parc Ferme (despite having cameras on every car the whole time and observers doing their thing too). Sounds pretty "meh" to me but no doubt there'll be plenty of intrigue and innuendo on display at Austin. |
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So maybe not quite so "meh"; and we only have Red Bull's word that it couldn't be activated when fully assembled. That could be a play on words; the mechanism itself cannot be reached when fully assembled, but what about the switch or whatever that activates that mechanism. There would seem to be little point in having a valve operated system installed to make the adjustment if you can't activate it; that would seem to defeat the purpose of it. Of course there is the possibility that it was never actually used, but the fact that it was there is enough to cast doubt about the matter. |
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So far as I am concerned, from what I've read - there was no positive benefit to The Thing, so...
Yeah. That's why everyone was pointing at McLaren. Just goes to show that you never can tell! |
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Given that the driver is in the car when it is being pushed back into the garage, there wouldn't be much room in the cockpit for an engineer to do anything and with the FIA having CCTV on every car in its garage, the team would be taking a big risk to activate something. Still feels "meh" to me but I may end up with egg on my face on that score. |
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Do we now expect Red Bull to have another bad weekend just as they seemed to be clawing back a little? Not that this little cheat system has been used of course. Asking for a friend. |
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How RBR's ride height device works.
No valves, it is a screw mechanism; nosecone needs to be removed, two separate panels removed and that gives access to the mechanism, which is under the driver's heel panel. Yeah, I'm going to stick with "meh". Clearly can't be adjusted with the driver in the car and the FIA has CCTV of all cars in their garages, so pretty hard to sneak it by - although I guess almost nothing is totally 100% impossible. |
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So Marko pointing fingers at Mclaren was really just him trying to deflect away the heat being on RB this time around?
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Would not surprise me with Marko. He has a habit of doing this kind of thing. Really it's just clearing up a grey area of the rules and nothing much more than that
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The only thing wrong I can see in this story is that nobody seems able to watch over the parc fermé. Is it so hard to keep five cars away from spectators, drivers or even moskitoes? No kidding!
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Other teams do not seem to share your optimism about this, and are asking questions about why Red Bull felt the need to place the adjuster inside the driver's space when it requires body parts to be removed to access it? And also why the FIA feels it necessary to require said adjuster to be sealed by the FIA to ensure that it is not being used, when, as according to Red Bull, they cannot readily access the adjuster without removing body parts? |
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