FabSwingers.com forum: F1 nuts… red bulls punishment

By *abio OP Man
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

For breaking the cost cap…. 7 million dollars, reduce wind tunnel development time!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thoughts are Mercedes should have just broken the cost cap on upgrades or should do next season seen as nothing serious happens.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thoughts are that it's given licence for other teams to break the cap.

Nowhere near harsh enough.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Seems about fair, and tbh what they did wrong probably made shag all difference to the championship (and I still think Lewis was robbe d). Just want it t go away now, it’s boring listening to Horner switch between being butt hurt and snide

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Seems about fair, and tbh what they did wrong probably made shag all difference to the championship (and I still think Lewis was robbe d). Just want it t go away now, it’s boring listening to Horner switch between being butt hurt and snide "

God I hate Horner. But he loves being the villain tbf

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"it’s boring listening to Horner switch between being butt hurt and snide "

Ain't that the truth.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Modern F1 has ruined the car industry

F1 use to be the pinnacle off car technology and we would see a trickle down effect ever 3-5 year

Ie what was high tech in f1 3-5 years ago would be put in to road cars

With modern F1 there’s so meny rules and regulations that it’s hindering development off the car industry

I say let them all go wild and spend as much as they want and as much power as they want and bring F1 back to the pinnacle off car tech

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By *heDeliveryManMan
over a year ago

Leicester

The problem is the teams run f1. They hold the sport to ransom by threatening to pull out if something goes against them. Apparently the wind tunnel ban could hamper them alot next season, but rather than fine them they'd be better off saying 'whatever you over spent by, we'll take that out of next seasons budget and if you go over we'll take your constructor points and prize money away.'

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By *ts the taking part thatMan
over a year ago

southampton

They'll use their B team for wind tunnel time & £6m is hardly 4% of the cost budget so a let off.

Money was never going to hurt them, it had to be points. They can onl be seen as cheats given the very unfair & conspired title win last season & now this.

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By *Booboo-Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh

I'm not a RB fan in the slightest but I think that's as fair as it's going to get. I don't know if the £7m comes from next year's budget or if it's out with.

The 10% less tunnel time will hurt a little but they have a lasting advantage from the previous years.

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By *abio OP Man
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"I'm not a RB fan in the slightest but I think that's as fair as it's going to get. I don't know if the £7m comes from next year's budget or if it's out with.

The 10% less tunnel time will hurt a little but they have a lasting advantage from the previous years."

The fine is separate from the budget cap….

The problem is that because the breach has happened in the first year of the new car development… they have basically had 2 years of excess improvement out of it!

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

I don’t think it’s an actual punishment. I used to love F1 and then they took it off terrestrial television and my interest diminished somewhat. I think Lewis was r@bbed last season and to know that the team that beat him had not played by the rules must be a double mind-fuck/ kick in the nuts for him.

Anyway that’s the decision, I think it devalues the sport to be honest.

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By *heRazorsEdgeMan
over a year ago

Wales/ All over UK

Fining a team backed by a multi-billion dollar company is barely any punishment at all, Aero development time restrictions won’t do much either now that they have a car that only needs some tweaking rather than a redesign.

When Ross Brawn did the press conference announcing the budget cap he said breaking it would cost points and possibly championships… that’s what should have happened and now it hasn’t it’s going to be harder to police in future

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It lost what little integrity it had when Lewis "lost" last year.

You can't just make up rules as you go.

I'll stick with 2 wheels.

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By *ulldog_71Man
over a year ago

Sedgefield

The whole point of the cost cap is to take the advantage away from the richer teams that can afford to spend more so £7m is no punishment at all it should be a 50 point deduction in the constructors and 25 in the drivers

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