FORMULA 1 STC SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX 2025 - Pre Race Thread

While I'm hopefully for the above, I'll not pop the bubbly until the race is over!

 

Having hope and faith in Ferrari right now is like the French generals believing they were winning the Indo-Chinese and Algerian wars.

 

Because there is only simulation and no real testing.

More likely Luca Badoer.
And there were only (just over) 1/2 of the races we have now.

With a budget of 1 engine and 1 transmission per day (per car) unlimited tires and unlimited fuel.
Engines would gain 3%-5% power per year
cars would be seconds faster year-on-year
Transmission gearing matched to each track

They would not have to race at might in places where temperatures never get over 90ºF.

 

If your team is playing $XM/year (hardware and software) in new better car simulators--is money you could have spent on simply making the car better--instead.

What is reasonable to Ferrari, Merc, RD is unreasonable to Haas and Williams
So, everyone has to play nice together--even works in grade school and T-ball ................. NOT.

 

+500

 

Where have I heard this one before?

 

None of the teams are saving money under the current rules. Back markers were still back markers then as well as now. The budget cap and rules have done nothing to change that.

 

Nobody said that everybody should have the same resources. There is already a budget cap, so it's up to the smaller teams to get to that cap. Anyway, even now the smaller teams have worse simulators and wind tunnels than the big ones.

There could be another posibility: small teams could sell their unused test time for cash. Also test time could be limited depending on the team position like the wind tunnels hours.

All I'm saying is that there are intermediate solutions between free testing and no testing at all.

 

Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Image Unavailable, Please Login




Image Unavailable, Please Login



Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Tweet

— Twitter API (@user) date