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28 Jan 2009, 18:39 (Ref:2381598) | #1 | ||
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Teams question Williams and Toyota rear diffuser legality...
Apparently several teams including Renault have sought clairification on the design of the rear diffusers on the Toyota and Williams cars...
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73038 I think if they rule against this it will really hurt Williams whom dont really have the spare cash to hurridly re-develop the rear of their car. Lets hope its cleared and the rest can "copy". |
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Lets hope they are legal, good on Toyota and Williams for having something different.
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Nice, it will be legal I'm sure.
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for williams sake and the current climate with them having spent a ton of dosh on it i hope its legal...
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I love to see stuff like this in F1,I hope they're found to be legal...and ferrari thought they were clever with their "wing mirrors"
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I hope something comes along to 'diffuse' the situation.....I'll get me coat.
I've no doubt that they will be banned because one team or another (no names) can't incorporate said idea into their chassis. |
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2 things spring to mind;
1) In 1996, with the raised cockpit sides, Williams, McLaren and Jordan(have I got the right teams?) interpreted the rules differently to everybody else and produced a car with a relatively low side protection structure. Consequently everything else looked like a barge and drove accordingly. This was questioned at the first race and found legal. 2) Rival teams have decided to pursue this now, rather than waiting until the first race. This tells me that they believe it probably is legal and they want the time to do their own version, rather than springing it in Melbourne, confident that they've made the right call. |
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If the Ferrari wing mirror supports are legal then this must be as well, surely F1 opperates on a fair playing field and one team wouldn't be favoured by the rule makers...
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So something ruled to be legal by the FIA could be deemed illegal by the race stewards?
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I hope they are legal. This is what race car designers do. Find loop-holes or grey areas in the rules and exploit them. If they didn't then we certainly wouldn't have cars like we do now.
Well done to Williams for finding something like that before a lot of the manufacturer teams with a lot larger budgets did. |
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Someone from Autosport tries to explain it all.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73083 Are we any wiser I wonder? Although it is fairly obvious what is going on by looking at the diagrams. |
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It sucks that other teams found out about it. It would have been nice to have the cars different for at least one race.
I don't understand why they consult with the FIA over grey areas. If it adheres to the rules, they should just run it. |
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Isnt the idea of it being a grey area that the ruling could go either way? If it was clearly legal then it wouldnt be much of a grey area
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If there's no rule that say's it's illegal, then leave it the hell alone. It shouldn't need clarification.
We have some of the greatest car designers in the world working on these cars, and their talents are constantly stifled. Let them get on with it. Rant over. |
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Surely if the other teams just "copied" by producing their own versions, then everybody would be in the same boat and clarification would be superfluous.
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Its been ruled legal.
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