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Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr
If a regulation/homologated part is modified for extra performance that's cheating to me, the easy way of gaining extra performance, until you're caught
The harder way is to exploit 'grey gray' areas of the rule book and when you're found out they can't ban/disqualify you but can only rewrite the rules to stop you doing it again
One part within a part I designed a few years back was a flexi rear wing flap, rules state you could have no moving parts but didn't state what stiffness as there was no deflection test. Aero elasticity is a great thing 
Our rear flap looked identical but deflected at a certain speed which stalled the rear wing making the car lose a huge amount of drag. We would make different flaps for different circuits so they stalled the wing at different speed to suit each circuit. We were fastest end of straight by a huge margin until the other teams caught on to what we were doing and there was rule change the following year that closed up that loop hole.
I don't have time for cheaters, fortunately most teams/people I deal with in motorsport want to win championships the right way. |
Knaus used to be the best at working that gray area. I think now he just wants to get through tech. That has changed big time this year. No more templates. Just a bunch of cameras that can measure just about every surface on the body.
