Phil wrote: ↑03 Aug 2018, 12:10
DarkSurferZA wrote: ↑01 Aug 2018, 15:45
Wow, all this hate against F1 PU manufacturers is really annoying. Happened to Honda for many seasons, and now Renault just because RBR is on the receiving end of it.
IMO the victimization of
poor Renault is more annoying. These PU manufacturers wanted these new highly complex power units. Back during the engine freeze period, it was mostly down to the ability and ingenuity of the teams building the chassis and aerodynamics.
Not the engine manufacturer, who was merely contracted to supply the engine to their clients.
.......with the complexity of these engines and the contracts involved, it's not even a free market/competition; RedBull can't get the engine(s) they want, because the manufacturer of choice is a direct competitor and would be therefore at a conflict of interest to supply them.....
And people wonder why a team like RedBull bitches? You would too, if you were in their shoes.
That's completely at odds with clarification issued in Technical Directive TD/005-18, where each engine must be:
i) Identical according to the dossier for each team.
and, unless a team informs us that they have declined any of the following, they should be:
ii) Run with identical software and must be capable of being operated in precisely the same way.
iii) Run with identical specifications of oil and fuel.