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**soonahonsefalh** · 10-15-2008, 01:08 AM

Is this a cost cutting measure then? Surely the ideas being kicked around to ban refuelling and shorten the races will only have a minor affect on the amount of money spent. Surely most of it is blown on complex aerodynamics etc.

I'm too young to remember F1 without refuelling, but I think that with the current regulations and even with the 2009 specs once the teams have had fair opportunity to counter the affect will just result in no overtaking whatsoever at many races, especially at the increasing number of street circuits.

I'm really dead against shortening the races. This appears to just be so that they don't have to radically redesign the cars, thus increasing costs. But presumably even when absolutely full the current cars can't last for longer than an hour. The only race they should really shorten (and probably will do) is Singapore, which was probably just due to a miscalculation of the average speed on the circuit anyway.

10-15-2008, 01:08 AM	#2
soonahonsefalh Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 603 Senior Member	Is this a cost cutting measure then? Surely the ideas being kicked around to ban refuelling and shorten the races will only have a minor affect on the amount of money spent. Surely most of it is blown on complex aerodynamics etc. I'm too young to remember F1 without refuelling, but I think that with the current regulations and even with the 2009 specs once the teams have had fair opportunity to counter the affect will just result in no overtaking whatsoever at many races, especially at the increasing number of street circuits. I'm really dead against shortening the races. This appears to just be so that they don't have to radically redesign the cars, thus increasing costs. But presumably even when absolutely full the current cars can't last for longer than an hour. The only race they should really shorten (and probably will do) is Singapore, which was probably just due to a miscalculation of the average speed on the circuit anyway.
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