TeamKoolGreen wrote: ↑26 Feb 2024, 02:00
If you don't like 2024, just wait till 2026. The 2026 engine regs are a disaster waiting to happen. The whole architecture is driven by environmentalist appeasement. The reality is, there is no appeasing environmentalist ideologues. They won't be happy until every motorsport is shut down. I think this could lead to a split up of F1. Mercedes and Renault will want to take the next step and go 80% electric. And Red Bull and maybe Ferrari will finally put a line in the sand. They might just say screw it and start their own series. With V-8 or 10's. Something to this effect anyway.
Nobody likes the 2014 engines. They are complicated, expensive, heavy and too quiet. But here we are doubling down on them. The F2 cars are already louder than the F1 cars. Imagine 2026. Engines should be de politicized.
Rant off.
Well said, and the big car manufacturers will only ever drive it with their own agenda, which is obviously facing the political outwash of so many opponents to their trade.
Absolutely now any involvement in sponsorship or support is caught in the crossfire with regard to corporate responsibility and appeasement of whomsoever deems it their right to judge other's activities on the basis that it doesn't fit within their narrow view of life as they dictate how that should happen.
So many in personal, commercial, political sphere attempting to greenwash their activities, more and more with no real coherence or understanding of what their actions do in reality.
This sport, with 24 performances a year, disseminated across and throughout communication networks with little further environmental impact, in all likelihood generating small contribution to world event, given the contributory effect of war mongering and world trading generally. Just comparison with another and far more prominent sport like football, will make the total F1 operation seem like a very small influence in reality. The joke being that the total fuel used to actually race these cars in infinitesimally small and almost invisible in pure quantity, making the R&D cost to design build an run them outstrip any advantage they may have at exhaust pipe.
That'll be the same for electric motive power too, no output ? But at what R&D cost, the true cost of that research in all of it's field to deliver a supposed green power unit.
Medium to longer range ..... it doesn't really look like it has an interesting future does F1, or anything else that may offend anyone while desperately attempting to appear virtuos
In effect, like going to see a big music concert only to be listening to the electricity sub station
while ignoring all of the infrastructure these event entail, as does any mass assembly of people away from their normal living habitat.
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), something to play more to their advantage. But rightly it should be ignored, both in MotoGP and Formula One. The rules are there -- concessions and reverse wind tunnel/CFD time respectively -- rightly, Honda won a race in 2023 so they (correctly) do not get the concessions. 
