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Originally Posted by Casper
I have to preface what follows with this, I am a motor racing enthusiast, I am not a fan of manufacturer or driver but I love watching racing at any level and watch talented drivers work at their craft. I had a mate when we were racing karts that was one of those people, other competitors used to line up at the fence to watch him race and in one event many years ago where professionals and a few amateurs were put in the same karts some of the professionals asked him to to go into cars because he beat them. In short I have no allegiance to any team or driver.
Parity...it was supposed to level the field and allow less than the very good to actually have a chance of winning of at least mixing in with the rest of the field and everyone knows it does not work as intended no matter what is done. I admire the principal but in over 50 years of racing I have never seen it work as intended and I would love to BTW. I just hate the way it does not work and not the principal itself because it would be awesome to see that kind of racing, let the talent rise etc and the amount of money become less important, the engineering capability of teams funded by money is the hurdle to that dream.
If a "roller skate" was used with a specified body it would go a long way to solving the issue IMHO and would take away a lot of engineering need and funding from the teams and this is what separates the men from the boys in the end and why teams are not equal. Teams with less funds could buy a used chassis ans still be up there in performance, the motor and drive line would be part of the chassis as supplied. My view is if you want parity then do it properly other wise get out of the way and let the teams develop and engineer the cars within outline regulations which includes unlimited motor and chassis development and see who can build the fastest car and not necessarily with the fastest driver though both tend to gravitate to each other.
At the moment as with most parity racing this is not the case, there is an incremental engineering war going on that is hugely expensive and putting a new front end in the cars won't change or solve the problem of equalising the performance of cars across the grid, in fact the change initially will cost a lot of money for next year.
If we are going to have parity let's do it properly from the chassis up and fiddle around at the edges. I can hear the cries of NO from here and very few of those will come from anyone who has actually been a competitor.
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Except that motor racing has never, ever, been about just the driver.
Building and engineering good cars has always been as important as finding who the best driver is. The sport has never been called ‘driver racing’ after all
It’s only in the last 15-20 years ‘parity’ or ‘control components’ have taken over the motor racing world to a prolific state, a little longer in Australia. This push has always been about containing costs though, not about making the rules ‘pure’ to find who the best driver is.
One could argue part of being the best driver is manoeuvring yourself into the best car