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Old 2 Apr 2010, 05:31 (Ref:2665236)   #566
Juarez Jed
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Juarez Jed should be qualifying in the top 10 on the gridJuarez Jed should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
Okay Jagtech , I'll play devil's advocate

I've seen the powerboost in action on A1GP cars and the increased performance is easily noticable to the naked eye and to the television viewer, making it more useful as a marketing tool and as a drivers aid.
However, how will you posibly get equal 50HP power boosts for the existing Honda engine and the new four cylinder turbos ?
An equivalency formula will be difficult at the best of times with differing torque and top speed characteristics on road courses and ovals without giving everyone an equal powerboost 25% of the time.
Ensuring certain cars don't have an unfair advantage that could lead to boring runaway victories would be a nightmare wouldn't it ?

When you have unequal equipment you run the risk of competitors getting disgruntled at their lack of performance, rightly or wrongly blaming the equivalency formula, and taking their bat and ball and going home ? At least now, on paper at least, everyone has an equal chance of victory, with the only variable in specification being the nut behind the wheel.

How will the teams that have invested in new equipment like being beaten by an old Dallara ? You would assume that the status quo will continue and the big teams with the most money will continue to dominate the racing with new chassis. However, if the old Dallaras are noticably slower you effectively have a division one and a division two class structure of competitors which is not what Indycar is about. Give the privateers in old cars a leg up with the regulations and you run the risk of an old car in good hands being the dominant car, which will upset the applecart and decrease the desire for teams to buy new equipment. It is like when ALMS was travelling along nicely until the LMP2 Porsche started winning races and devalued the LMP1 teams and equipment as a consequence. Everyone loves the underdog until they start winning.........

We have all grown tired of dull oval races where the cars drive around at fantastic speed and in tight formations but don't RACE each other. Your aero proposals should liven up the competition amongst the top 10, with varying relative performance at different stages of a fuel and tyre run. It also allows the mid-pack runner to try something different on set-up and get to the front with skill, daring and bravado rather than the current state of affairs where you just circulate in dirty air and your only hope is to go out of sequence and risk going a lap down. However, the majority of the midfield and the tailenders will probably go conservative or just get it wrong and will end up going backwards quicker than they do now. So in improving the racing up front do you make the midfield worse and end up with strung out fields running to their own strategy, with runaway winners and more numerous ( & dangerous) 'dump trucks' slowly circulating at the back ?

How long do you allow your old Dallaras to run ? Do the big teams get new updated specification cars every 5 years and the privateers get the hand-me-downs on a continual basis ? Or is this only a temporary solution for the next 3 years say after which everyone has the new spec cars and we then have a single chassis formula again for another 10 years ?

What does everyone else think ?
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