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Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr
Since I started back in the V10 era, designing a F1 car design is now infinetly more complicated and more detailed which directly conflicts against reducing weight or the size
Reducing weight is near impossible, reducing size will compromise safety and over taking
New aero rules coming include active aero so more weight/complexity and new V6 hybrid era will be more weight due to larger battery
To make everything smaller, lighter simpler is not really an option unless F1 went to NA 4 cylinder ICE's, smaller wheels, fueled pit stops or shorter races, slower speeds and reduced driver safety
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I suppose that was my point. It seems like F1 wants technical sophistication for technical sophistication's sake. So, as you pointed out, cars will then be more complicated/heavy/larger. F1 is an arms race.
So write the rules to try to deliberately oppose that. Is there no way to create the regulations to make the cars simpler with the goal/intended consequence of making them smaller (without compromising safety) and perhaps slower? Were the cars back in the V10 days so much less safe than those of today? Is the racing more exciting now than back then?
Forget this power unit garbage (is it really pushing trickle-down technology into road cars?) and additional active aero (won't that just make them faster, like active suspension?). Allow refueling. Even those inbred hicks in NASCAR seem to be able to refill their racecars without setting themselves on fire every weekend--and they've got a lot more cars and a lot more races to do so over the course of a season. Or would the teams and fans then complain about F1 cars not reflecting the pinnacle of motorsports technology?
Or am I an Andretti with no understanding of what it takes to make an F1 car?