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Originally Posted by Rory
Brabham weren't enough of a force to bring about such a monumental change. Everyone was so hellbent on seeing Ferrari win again, that they decided to go with the notion of lighter cars starting the race.... low and behold, Ferrari were a force again.
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It wasn't a change, it was an innovation, and it was adopted by all other teams, and then like Knowlesy clarified, it was banned for a long time, mostly because the danger of the refueling, there wasn't technology good enough to make it safe. There wasn't any
political purpose on that.
Like Ralf fan observed it took a long time until Ferrari start to win again, hardly they had benefited from that "change".
The Ferrari "win all" conspiracy is related to TGF's era rather than the previous versions of the team...
But if you like conspiracies theories, here's a good one... Bernie owned the team at the time of invention of the refueling, so it might have grown on him to bring it back...
Anyway, Gordon Murray's ideas have brought many technologies that today are common place, so he deserves to be respected.