SmallSoldier wrote: ↑14 Jul 2020, 16:55
DChemTech wrote:SmallSoldier wrote: ↑14 Jul 2020, 15:37
Red Bull has had every opportunity to change concepts and go to a “low rake” car... With the amount of resources they have, I’m sure that they investigated the possibility and they stuck with their high rake because they saw more potential... If not, it would mean that they didn’t want to change their concept knowing that it was the inferior one, which I wouldn’t expect them to do.
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Well, aside from difficulties, it just doesn't make sense that when one team is dominating, you alter the regulations such that it's even more difficult for competitors to catch up.
The thing is that I don’t believe that the regulations were changed in order to hamper the other competitors and they have had several years to change their approach to rake if they wanted to... If what some think in this thread (that low rake is superior with the current set of regulations than high rake), I find it hard to believe that Red Bull didn’t realized this too and didn’t made a change in their philosophy.
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I don't think they
deliberately changed the rules to hamper competition either, but the way the rules was changed
did hamper competition in practice, which should (and could, and probably to an extend was) be realized upfront. However, keep in mind there was not one -big- regulation change that -massively- hampered high rake cars. There were small changes, each time hampering everyone to some extend, and high rake setups more than average. But I can very well imagine that each time, Red Bull figured that a total concept overhaul would set them back more than sticking with the concept - a full concept overhaul may have taken more than one year to get on top of. And every time, they were probably right in that, had there not been an
at that point unforeseen change in the next year, plus an extension of the current formula this year. Had they known all these things, perhaps they would have changed more radically in 2016 or so.
And still, it doesn't change my point. If you change regulations because racing is boring because one team is dominating, you need to keep in mind what effect that regulation change will have, considering the car philosophies teams are using at that point- and if it makes the already dominating concept even more dominating, you should not push the change. Especially if it essentially forces all teams to follow the same philosophy as the leading team. It's nice if teams can compete with different philosophies, cars look enough alike as it is. That the most successful car
upgrade this year seems to be the one team that just copy/pasted last years front runner, shows how dire the state of F1 regulation is. If we're going that way anyway, i'd rather just see a standardized chassis - at least in that case the other teams do get a proper chance to compete.