proteus wrote: ↑20 Dec 2025, 19:52
sucof wrote: ↑20 Dec 2025, 14:29
Tommy Cookers wrote: ↑20 Dec 2025, 13:33
capping max horsepower (in a fuel rate limit formula) is capping ICE efficiency (in an efficiency formula)
Sorry but this is not an argument even.
Like any part of your argument is written in diamonds by god itself...
The FIA can do whatever they want, including the teams.
The FIA have repeatedly said, when there will be huge differences between engines, they will act.
And regardless of this, they still can. They just have to want it.
If the teams in question have a brain, they will probably limit their engines so that it will not be deemed too much stronger than the competition, so they will retain some benefit. If their engine will be deemed too much more powerful the FIA will probably step in.
If they step in and limit the engines, then they should simply close the doors and dispand the sport. In what universe is this even considered as good and competitive?
The best thing is that at every race they start to give away participation medals to the drivers instead of podiums and points. Everyone is a winner....
Ever since they decided they want to run a budget racing series (even before official budget cap) the whole sport started to look like a kids show. This will take it to a whole new level of that.
Ban the engine suppliers then, chuck in a generic engine. There is no use to have suppliers in the sport if they are basically forced to curb themself, or being handicaped by the governing body.
Then take a look again at this sport. It is already highly regulated. Because a sport is by definition is something that is governed by rules. Rules create the sport, not vice versa.
It is the rules that create true competition.
So no, limiting the engines till they close or fix the loophole, is the most logical and fair, sport like solution.
Based on your wishes, it would be wild west, and a team would be seconds faster than the rest, the last teams will be seconds slower than the midfield, it would be chaos and zero true competition. It would be super boring.
And what you need to understand is that the intention of any rule in F1 and in sports in general is even more important than the rule itself.
Meaning, if they created that rule, thinking no engine shall have higher than 16:1 compression ratio, then even if they failed to write the rule well or create the perfect controlling, it is still against the intention of the rules if a team succeeds to overcome it.
Hence a change is inevitable. Either by changing the rule or the measurement. And till then, it is super easy to cap the max horsepower, as otherwise, teams that went agains the intention of the rule will have an unfair advantage.
