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Your mind seems to bungeejumping around, Gt_R. We already discussed this in the HHF thread and there you started with comments like this, eventually apologizing 'to all the fans' and here you start 'get-a-life'-ing again. Good suggestion I guess ... I might as well post the same again then.
In the case of traction control you see it ain't that simple. The area of electronic aids is clouded under a haze of rumours, suspicion and denial. Although the FIA has failed to confirm any accusation in court (Ban Max! ) the only fact we as fans know of is that it is not impossible to use TC unpunished in F1. All it takes are a ruthless programmer, well paid for his silence, and a willing driver. Apart from the organizing teammanager, the specialist and the driver no-one needs to know, not even inside the team, not even the driver's teammate in the case of different treatments between those.
That knowledge among fans doesn't seem to move to the logical conclusion that teams, who have developed that kind of TC, will do anything they can to raise their perfomance, thus use some sort of electronic aid.
Instead it seems to divide us in two camps. The ones who are utterly convinced that it's Mika-magic or Schumi-power that makes them drive well ahead of four other teams who seem to be very competitive but simply lack somewhere. It isn't horsepower or aero-deficits coz the teams behind those can clearly be pointed out lacking in one of these areas. Those fans can't really point out what it exactly is where the Schumi and Mika advantage is coming from but they feel that electronic aids are that far off they simply do not accept it as a part of contemporary F1.
On the other hand there are those who think that's very naive and simply don't buy it. They reckon there are electronic aids out there and that the $ 100 million Ferrari and McLaren spend in excess of the Williams, Jordan, BAR, Jaguar budgets of $ 200 million is more than enough to pay a few software specialists in order to supply their drivers with some very sophisticated electronic aids.
F1 is no fun sport, it's business. Business where a team has to pull all registers to survive up front. The rules are patented Mosley-rubber and it's the teams jobs to stretch it as far as they can. The further you stretch them they faster you can possibly go. The more areas you stretch them to their fullest the further ahead you will be on the grid. Ergo, the teams on the forefront of the grid are champions in using the maximum stretch in the rules in the most areas ... the electronic aid area included.
Cheers,
Dino
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