dr-baker wrote:AndreaModa wrote:Lots of good stuff!
Definitely agree about the chassis/car construction rules. The Haas model would potentially work for Toro Rosso/Red Bull too - don't know why they haven't exploited this method yet.
And I am not just sorry for those at Manor, but also those who spent several years at HRT and Lotus/Caterham. Under this method of working, how many of those would have continued in jobs at those teams, I wonder?
In a way Red Bull and Toro Rosso are already working in a similar way to Haas, as the two outfits have a shared design team (Red Bull Technologies) and shared production facilities.
As Miguel98 notes, whilst Red Bull did push it quite far with Toro Rosso in the past, to the point where a number of components were effectively interchangeable between the two cars, the regulations have pushed the two outfits apart. To a certain extent, Toro Rosso seem to have started to move towards a slightly different design philosophy to Red Bull in recent years, with a slightly different balance between drag reduction and total downforce.
Miguel98 wrote:Because they did a couple of years ago, and it got banned because of it?
In the case of Haas, the FIA has already made some moves to introduce greater separation between Haas and Ferrari.
There were accusations that Ferrari were circumventing the restrictions on wind tunnel testing by effectively using Haas's wind tunnel development time to test some of their own components - although the FIA did not find any evidence that this had happened, they have introduced changes to the regulations that are designed to cut that sort of thing out in the future.