Rob H
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... On ITV now, for those who arent watching it.
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It's just really wound me up. Basically a couple of teams were using a floor that flexed at high speed to reduce drag. I think some teams ran with a similar type of thing going on with their front and rear wings last year. Now i'm sorry, but to me, designing something to fully expoit it's mechanical properties is fucking genious to get the edge over your opponent.
Apparently not in F1 - lots of other teams moaned about it, as they always seem to do, hence they were investigated, and made to change it  .
I'm getting would up about F1 now, it should be full of stuff like this, fully exploring the limits of materials, using new ones etc etc, as sooner or later if it's good, it'll end up on road cars. Instead we have to live with them enforcing more and more stupid rules to slow the cars down, and limit the freedom to experiment, meaning most of the differences are just numbers on a computer with the result of the ferrari being 20 times faster than the other cars, without a fucking clue why except "they have mor emoeny to develop their car"
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Rob H
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I still think it's be a laugh for one season, scrap the current rule book, replace with
1) The car must have a driver
2) The car must have 4 wheels
3) The winner is the first car to cross the line
Go!
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