WTF?

December 10, 2007 Last Friday, at the World Motor Sport Council in Monaco, the FIA, which governs Formula One racing (http://www.gizmag.com/tag/f1/), made a decision to immediately freeze engine development for the next 10 years. Unbelievably, the engine each F1 team presents and homologates by the end of next March will be the engine that team races until 2017 – and the billions of Euros normally spent on engine development will be channeled into peripheral systems. The FIA sees development outside the engine, such as with Kinetic Energy Recovery, as a far more valuable contribution to road car development than spending money on squeezing another 1000rpm and 30 horsepower out of an engine that's already spinning three times as fast as the one in your family sedan.

http://www.gizmag.com/f1-shock-no-more-engine-development-for-10-years/8481/


Do you agree with this decision?

Its because of global warming.

I have a friend that works for McLaren in the UK on their F1 support team. He said that some of the stuff they've been working on has been astronomical regarding the motors. Unfortunately, I could get no details, except for that they were going to be rediculous.

With the intention of examining other technological aspects I'm all for it.

With the intention of examining other technological aspects I'm all for it.

I understand they're reasoning, but I just think 10 years is TOO long. They could have started with 3-5 years.

I agree with the reason, but not the timeframe. It is too long, they should make it 3-5 years instead

bwahahaaaa... great minds think alike!!

I suppose but with such a short span can you really expect a company to hold off the engine development?

good point, and how could they actually hold off engine development. they would still be constantly testing new motors so that as soom as the time is up, they will all have crazy motors in their race cars.

what about those parts made especially for those engines.

bwahahaaaa... great minds think alike!!


Wow!

I suppose but with such a short span can you really expect a company to hold off the engine development?

Well, regardless, they're going to be doing SOME kind of research in the background, they just won't be focusing on it as much since it won't benefit them from years to come.