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[Jammy]

Yey! For once this is one FIA proposal that has my full backing. Without them McLaren, Renault, RBR, et al could compete without the needless intervention of the FIA making sure that Ferrari always win!

http://uk.eurosport....it-formula.html

[roofless]

so if I've got this right - if BMW win the tender - renault, mercedes, ferrari and toyota would be expected to use BMW engines in their cars?

thats stupid.

its more than stupid.

[ROCKET]

It's just a threat to get the teams to agree to cost cuts

[Rhyd]

I find the claim that it'll save money ridiculous - teams that can afford it will simply spend their money on something else - aerodynamics, better braking, bribing the FIA...

[jammiedodger26]

Agreed....that takes the michael! Everyone would quit, surely?? Why would Toyota, Renault or Ferrari want to use BMW engines in their cars??

Half the reason car manufacturers go into F1 is to show off, create awareness and publicity of their cars, the technology in F1 filters down, in one way or another, to the cars we drive on the roads.....so why would a car manufacturer want to advertise that fact by using a BMW engine?!?!

[79flyingturd]

I find the claim that it'll save money ridiculous - teams that can afford it will simply spend their money on something else - aerodynamics, better braking, bribing the FIA...

Bribing the FIA?? surely not, i always wondered what tycoons spend their money on!

[Jammy]

If people want to know how this might work, just look at the A1 championship, where all the cars are identical.

[Shifty]

If people want to know how this might work, just look at the A1 championship, where all the cars are identical.

First of all you've gotta find people who watch A1!!

[roofless]

If people want to know how this might work, just look at the A1 championship, where all the cars are identical.

exactly - we dont want another A1. we want gratuatous gartitiosu grtifactious lavish spending on a biblical scale. - keep it unreal, keep it daft, keep it spectaculor.

[Jammy]

I must admit, I've never watched an A1 race in my life. However, there is something quite appealing at the prospect of having Hamilton, Massa, Alonso, Vettel, Kimi all racing head to head in exactly the same spec cars...

[Ethel]

I can't imagine Ferrari would be Ferrari without a Formula 1 team. They could all start with the same stock engine if they were allowed a fairly free hand at developing it, but I don't see any team readily agreeing to effectively become a marketing and R&D arm for another manufacturer.


gratuitous but extravagant would be better

[mk3 Cooper S]

Not just down to driving skill. It would also be down to the engineers who set up the cars.

[roofless]

why not issue them all with the blue-print to a standardised bottom end? now where's that photocopy of an 850 block.................................

[mk3 Cooper S]

why not issue them all with the blue-print to a standardised bottom end? now where's that photocopy of an 850 block.................................

That is an option worth considering - using standised components.
I thought they were considering a common ECU too?

[mini93]

kidding me? they will always find a way to bend the rules, there will be someone for sure cheating at any given time in some form or another, usualy most of them are. Only ones who arent are they ones who cant find a way to ether hide it well enough or smart enough to find a loop hole. vehicle weight for EG...lead clipboards which weight a few Kg's just casualy left on the rear wing, maybe a vehicle mapping laptop in a touring car floor, who knows it WILL happen