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Originally Posted by jimclark
IndyCar aside, what about the development costs for these formulas for keeping the cost down? How hard do they have to try to develop in series when you're only going to be BoP'ed if you become "unequally faster"?
And about IndyCar, what designers? There is no designing (and the innovation that comes with it) when you must run what's handed to you.
Like good movies and shows, why not just just script it and have the teams play the parts correctly. 'Could have the whole field duking it out right to the wire. How exciting.  'May as well go watch some Rocky movies (or the like). 
That way at least you know you're not being had, you know it's fake from the git-go.  |
As I said, there's always going to be a certain amount of contrivance and Bop is a great example.
There has been "some" designing and innovation in IndyCar, the DW 12 has changed beyond all recognition.
However, the reality is there won't be any real design and innovation, unless IndyCar opens up chassis design to other manufacturers. Even if they do, how many chassis manufacturers will take part? They will want to recoup their R&D costs and that will be passed on to the teams. That cost in turn, has to be met by the money teams get from sponsors and teams are only going to attract sponsors if they are winning.