Ferrari certainly have a laundry list of tidying to do, but at least we could be spared all of the convoluted arguments about how the regulations are a failure because silver is not winning and even if Ferrari had it's flaws, the first half of last season was sufficiently entertaining. If anything, this season shows how important it was for the FIA to leave everything alone because they didn't appreciate how good we had it before. I thought what Ferrari was speculated to have done was quite clever.organic wrote: ↑26 Jul 2023, 23:53If they didn't do it midseason it would've been done at the end of the year anyway. And the engine unreliability, crashes and strategy failures had put the title fight already by the summer break, so it's not like we missed out on a chance for Leclerc wdc or Ferrari WCC due to the midseason change
I do agree it was wholly unreasonable for fia to do it, given it was lobbied for by competitor and effected to improve the show (thinking it would bring RB/Ferrari back in line with others) midseason and sets bad precedent, but I don't think it robbed us of a lot.
They've arbitrarily changed the plank regulations mid-season, while letting front wings continue to flex like Beckham. Then they changed the floor edges and instead of actually giving us something to care about this year, that team then came out and said they "underestimated" it's impact themselves. If you are going to attempt to hobble your rivals , at least have a plan to benefit from that regs change. ffs.
It will take time now to get back to that point of competitiveness.
