Comments on: Flexible Floors – The Plot Thickens http://www.formula1latest.com/2007/03/21/flexible-floors-the-plot-thickens/ Formula 1 Motor Racing News and Views Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:50:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Clive http://www.formula1latest.com/2007/03/21/flexible-floors-the-plot-thickens/comment-page-1/#comment-1621 Clive Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:39:22 +0000 http://www.formula1latest.com/2007/03/21/flexible-floors-the-plot-thickens/#comment-1621 True, Dan. But I must admit I take my hat off to the engineers and designers - they continue to work their way around the regulations with one brilliant idea after another. Can you imagine the light dawning in colleague's faces when one of them said, "What happens if we let the floor move downwards...?" True, Dan. But I must admit I take my hat off to the engineers and designers – they continue to work their way around the regulations with one brilliant idea after another. Can you imagine the light dawning in colleague’s faces when one of them said, “What happens if we let the floor move downwards…?”

]]> By: Dan M http://www.formula1latest.com/2007/03/21/flexible-floors-the-plot-thickens/comment-page-1/#comment-1620 Dan M Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:30:51 +0000 http://www.formula1latest.com/2007/03/21/flexible-floors-the-plot-thickens/#comment-1620 To be a constructor in Formula 1 must be very frustrating. You spend an entire offseason trying to find that one little invention that is not clearly 'banned' by the FIA that will give you the smallest of advantages only to find out that they are changing to rules mid season. It isn't Ferrari's fault that they found a grey area in the rules and used it to their advantage. I'm sure had Alonso won the race then you wouldn't hear Mclaren complaining. Im also sure that if the FIA doesn't ban this then they will be running a similar floor. If your not winning then your whining . To be a constructor in Formula 1 must be very frustrating. You spend an entire offseason trying to find that one little invention that is not clearly ‘banned’ by the FIA that will give you the smallest of advantages only to find out that they are changing to rules mid season. It isn’t Ferrari’s fault that they found a grey area in the rules and used it to their advantage.

I’m sure had Alonso won the race then you wouldn’t hear Mclaren complaining. Im also sure that if the FIA doesn’t ban this then they will be running a similar floor.

If your not winning then your whining .

]]> By: Clive http://www.formula1latest.com/2007/03/21/flexible-floors-the-plot-thickens/comment-page-1/#comment-1616 Clive Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:00:09 +0000 http://www.formula1latest.com/2007/03/21/flexible-floors-the-plot-thickens/#comment-1616 I agree totally about the "flexibility" of the FIA, David. The problem with penalizing Renault after the dampers were declared illegal was that all of the teams had used them at one time or another - so the FIA would have had take everyone's points away, including Ferrari's as they had been using the system just as much as Renault had. It was a political decision intended to prevent Renault running away with the championship - and it nearly worked. I agree totally about the “flexibility” of the FIA, David. The problem with penalizing Renault after the dampers were declared illegal was that all of the teams had used them at one time or another – so the FIA would have had take everyone’s points away, including Ferrari’s as they had been using the system just as much as Renault had.

It was a political decision intended to prevent Renault running away with the championship – and it nearly worked.

]]> By: David http://www.formula1latest.com/2007/03/21/flexible-floors-the-plot-thickens/comment-page-1/#comment-1615 David Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:53:28 +0000 http://www.formula1latest.com/2007/03/21/flexible-floors-the-plot-thickens/#comment-1615 "And, whatever Ferrari and BMW are doing, you can bet that everyone else will be by the end of the season." Or no one will be doing, as in the '06 damper example. Which raises the question: Since the dampers were illegal, why were the points Renault accumulated last year while using this particular technology not taken away? A step further. Why was Renault not penalized for using illegal components? I have no particular bias against any team, but I do have a problem with the FIA and their plastic regulations, which are every bit as flexible as the wings of ‘06 and possibly the floors of ‘07 too. “And, whatever Ferrari and BMW are doing, you can bet that everyone else will be by the end of the season.”

Or no one will be doing, as in the ’06 damper example.

Which raises the question:

Since the dampers were illegal, why were the points Renault accumulated last year while using this particular technology not taken away?

A step further. Why was Renault not penalized for using illegal components?

I have no particular bias against any team, but I do have a problem with the FIA and their plastic regulations, which are every bit as flexible as the wings of ‘06 and possibly the floors of ‘07 too.

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