Posted by ashleigh on
January 18, 2008
Has ‘mad’ Max finally made a sensible decision?
The FIA have circulated a letter to the F1 teams this week. It basically sums up the recent talks the teams had about budget caps, and engines.
The letter says that the FIA are going to go ahead and introduce the budget caps in 2009, and also details what will be exempt from the cap.
So far it looks like Drivers, Engines, Marketing and Team Principle salary’s will not have to be found out of the rumoured 150million dollar budget.
Instead it seems the budget is directly targeted at lowering the cost of Aero development, as CFD and wind tunnel usage is not cheap (BMW own a 12-teraflop supercomputer for their CFD usage called Albert2).
The letter also eluded to the rumoured change to the 10 year engine freeze, it seems that it will certainly be lowered to a 5 year freeze, so we are already half way through it, which is good news.
The budget capping is certainly a better idea than the mandated limiting of CFG and Tunnel usage that was first planned by the FIA.
Posted by ashleigh on
June 10, 2006
Moseley perhaps making some sense shock!
Yeah, it's amazing, Max Moseley with a decent idea! I was as shocked as you.
The unofficial F1 Blog is reporting that he has decided that copying the MotoGP way of doing things is perhaps right. In MotoGP they have an engine size limit (currently 1ltr, but soon to become 800cc), and a fuel allowance limit (27ltrs, soon to become 23ltrs), but besides these two limits the manufacturers are free to do whatever they like, and generate as much horsepower as they can (between 230-270bhp in the modern bikes) they can run traction control, ABS, active suspension whatever.
Max has hinted that he would not regulate how big, and how many cylinders the cars use, he would not even limit horsepower and torque, no he would limit the amount of fuel the cars could use.
Max said “If we are going to have a high-technology Formula One then the research should be devoted to areas which contribute something to society,”
Posted by ashleigh on
June 8, 2006
Max ‘please be gone’ Moseley
Max has stated that the 3 year engine freeze will happen. At the moment only Cosworth, Ferrari and Renault have agreed on the 3 year change freeze.
Max has to ask himself, why would the engine suppliers want to adhere to the freeze? yes it will certainly cut costs, but the manufacturers make advancements that are directly mapped to the production cars they make, ABS, TC, multi valve engines, variable valves and direct injection have all come directly from the F1 engine programs.
Max has to remember that the manufacturers are not in F1 for the prestige, no they are there to make money and develop 'real world' uses for the technology. After all where would Lotus be today without there F1 knowledge of aluminium and composite materials.
Yes Max we do need to cap costs, but a 3 year freeze? the Indycart engines would become more technologically impressive than the F1 lumps.
Posted by ashleigh on
May 20, 2006
Bernie and the GPMA kiss and make up
Bernie Ecclestone has signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday penned by five of the sport's major car makers.
The Grand Prix Manufacturers Association (GPMA) comprising Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Renault, Toyota and Honda have signed up to F1 through until the end of 2012. This stops the threat of a manufacturer backed breakaway series.
"The manufacturers all signed it in the end," Ecclestone told autosport.com. "There were a lot of negotiations and things came to a head in the end thanks to Alain Dassas (Renault F1 president). He, along with Professor Goeschel (BMW board member), was the driving force behind getting the deal. They effectively made it happen and saw in the end that the deal made sense. We've now signed our part and it is now just a question of sending it to the lawyers."
The agreement is said to assign the teams between 50 and 60 % of the sports total revenue. This will lower the requirements of the sponsorship deals an allow the smaller teams to become a little stronger.
Posted by ashleigh on
May 16, 2006
3 year engine freeze still on?
Max Moseley has stated that the 3 year freeze on the engine technology in the F1 cars is still going to take place from 2008 onward.
The 11 teams currently in F1 held a meeting before the Spanish GP and agreed by an 8 to 3 vote that the freeze should be lifted. However ITV-F1 have seen a letter that states that Max will go ahead (again) with the plan whether the teams like it or not.
Where is Paul Stoddard when you need him, please Paul come and take over from Max, as he will ruin the sport.
