[Official] Rate the race: Canadian Grand Prix

[Marbot]

Originally Posted by JeremySmith

DRS is crap and we all know it, so do they...

But they also know that to get the same effect by cutting downforce would also make the cares much slower. You can't unlearn the mechanisms by which to make F1 cars faster.

[JeremySmith]

Would we really notice the difference if the cars were slower.....

[Aysedasi]

Depends how much slower......

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by Marbot

But they also know that to get the same effect by cutting downforce would also make the cares much slower. You can't unlearn the mechanisms by which to make F1 cars faster.

True but you can remove them from the equation and re-write the rule book, as we've seen with double-diffusers, F-ducts etc. How far they are willing to go, is I think what's at the heart of this.

[Marbot]

Originally Posted by JeremySmith

Would we really notice the difference if the cars were slower.....

We probably wouldn't, but a stop-watch would.

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

Depends how much slower......

The current cars have far more downforce than they did before they had DRS fitted, and the cars couldn't overtake then, which is why they now have DRS.

Interestingly, the 2009 budget cap regulations stated that movable front and rear wings would be used and that they could be used at any time, so the cars would be just as fast as they are now around corners and probably faster on the straights. You should never let politics get in the way of a good idea. Oh well.