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Originally posted by 911pcars
Power, technology and unbelievable performance are all relative. Besides, Mosley isn't legislating away technology and performance. Sounds like he's merely introducing another format for teams to develop.
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Exactly. The quoted excerpt is only part of that article:
"We are in active discussions with the major manufacturers to ensure that, in future, research and development relevant only to Formula One will be discouraged, whereas that which has relevance to road-car development will be encouraged," Mosley told F1-Racing magazine.
"We understand that such an approach has broad support from the competing manufacturers and we will work closely with them to ensure that, in particular, the new environmentally relevant technologies that many of them are developing are made our priority.
"Whilst aiming to achieve these goals we will ensure that the sporting spectacle of F1 remains the same or is even improved by the new developments."
Max has been saying for a long time that F1 needs to stay relevant and to use competition to drive technology and vice versa. As a full-on F1 fan that's fine by me, the drivers and teams will be just as interesting with different rules.
Also what he is saying now is a proposal to take effect from 2011 and it has a long way to go before it hits the grid. The Technical Working Group will whack any 4wd idea over the head with a carbon driveshaft for a start.
Smaller cars are lighter cars, and the technology will probably move forward between now and 2011 so that these 2.2 V6 Turbo biofuel engines develop over 800bhp - who does that not excite then?