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Fred Vasseur about the start procedure rules (media.piefed.zip)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/formula1@lemmy.world
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"We already changed massively the rule of the start with the five-second story. IRAA One year ago,Iwent to the FIA. I raised the hand on the starting procedure to say 'guys it will be difficult'. S TBM UniCredit ceVA The reply was clear, that we have to design the car fitting with the regulation and not to change the regulation fitting with the car. We designed the car fitting with the regulation, the change of the five seconds, the blue light story, didn't help us at all, but lthink at one stage enough is enough." - Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur speaks out against changing F1's race-start procedure further

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[–] 22 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I have some words of wisdom for non-Ferrari teams

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    [–] 16 points 7 months ago*

    I'm loathe to agree with Ferrari, but I agree to a point. You can't change it now, that messes with the entire design philosophy Ferrari made, and they can't well change it. And regulating the other cars to be more competitive out of their own performance deficits while giving Ferrari no way to cover their own (under supposed new start procedures) is a huge slap in the face, especially with them raising this exact concern.

    Sucks to suck I guess. I was very much of the "wait and see" persuasion with the new regs, but I think I've seen enough. Clipping is stupid, the back and forth passing off of basically "push to overtake", it just isn't good. It could probably be salvaged, but who knows what we'll end up with.

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    [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    I like Fred. He's undoubtedly trying to protect an advantage that his team is enjoying, but he goes about it in a more open and honest way than what we often see from a TP.

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    [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    OOTL. What is the context?

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago*

    The cars now heavily rely on a turbo for starts. They now have several seconds of warning to spin up before lights out. Ferrari engines have a much smaller turbo than the others so they spin up to maximum much faster giving them an advantage off the line at the expense of maximum power.

    Changes to start procedure must be unanimously ratified by all the teams, and Ferrari engined teams have rejected changes.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Poor race starts. Pretty much everyone not using a Ferrari engine is struggling with the start of a race. A year ago Ferrari mentioned this will be an issue and wanted a rules change. Other teams told Ferrari "those are the regs, deal with it". So Ferrari dealt with it while other engine manufacturers didn't. Now others want to change the rules and Ferrari is telling them "those are the regs, deal with it".

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 7 months ago

    In order to simplify the engine building process, they removed an electrical part of the engine that was used at the start of the race. Now it is harder to start the engines, and Ferrari were the only manufacturer/team to raise this concern in advance.

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