Originally Posted by
omgwtfbbq!
Like I said, the issue was brought before all the teams last year when development was still on-going, the other teams had plenty of time to develop their own diffusers, and they didn't. Now they have to. Everyone knows that racing regulation interpretation is 1% what you can do and 99% what they don't say you can't do.
i have read that and i disagree. i have also read that other teams had the same idea durning the summer, asked and got told it would not be legal. so they did not build them.
"Anyone with a command of English will tell you it is a hole, so do not let someone attempting to be clever with words defeat the express purpose of the rules," Tozzi was quoted as saying by the Press Association.
"The appeal is not because we have not made the most of an opportunity, but because Brawn, Toyota and Williams have not acted within the regulations."
Renault's representative Andrew Ford said the sport's governing body had already concluded the design was illegal, and that was the reason why the French team decided not to use it.
"It is not that Renault missed the boat, as Brawn have pointed out, it is because the FIA said it was illegal. It was at that point the diffuser was abandoned," said Ford.
Ford confirmed that the team has its own prototype version, which could be ready to run as soon as China should the case be called in favour of the 'diffuser gang'.
autosport.com - F1 News: Rivals say no doubt diffusers illegal
do i care either way? no.. i call them cheating because thats not why we had the best season i've ever watched in F1 last year, and then a whole new rule book throw at the teams for one thing, and one thing only. more passing.. to put on a better show. the idea was to have a ton of front down force and less in the rear. make the cars more fun to watch slide around and easier to pass the slower car in front of you. because you don't loose all front end grip when you get under them. now with this diffuser, it will be back to the same as last year, and over all the cars are already turning faster lap times than a year ago. so the whole rule change is now for not. because they allowed 3 teams to build these things.
on top of that.. if they were so clever, they would have just come up with a design like the redbull cars that don't have the DD and are just as fast, or faster as we may well see within the next few races.
either way, none of this will matter by the end of the season. when brawn is nothing more than a mid pack car and a footnote to the F1 history buffs.