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Originally Posted by Purist
The cars aren't going to lose the electronics; the manufacturers will leave first, as they don't make engines without them anymore. (Anyway, at some point here, Europe may well mandate that it all be electronics, regardless.)
And yes, Casper, it is dreamland that the manufacturers would go along.
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the assumption here being that the manus are more interested in the technology then they are the marketing and advertising benefits of F1?
no doubt that the 'technology' is also what they are advertising but there is a line here somewhere because the technology that F1 is pursuing isnt relatively interesting nor is it actually improving the quality of the racing/sporting event.
a more thermally efficient engine is of course cool but its not going to literally change the world in 10 years the same way smart phones have over the past 10 years.
the closest F1 has recently got to the space race was with a non manu team (RB) dropping some dude out of space capsule.
the best aerodynamisists arent working in F1 and surely F1 isnt a training ground so that these aero specialists can go back to their manu and help them design plastic cladded generic bubble SUVs to be built on a global assembly line... presumably the bast are working in fields like building trains that travel faster than 400km/h. the movement of mass numbers of people is the future and certainly not inefficiently moving one person around.
for sure im being a bit glib here
but the technology that some teams are spending half a billion a year on are no longer interesting, not particularity good for racing, and not relevant to the human race imo.
anyways, imo, unless the next race track is going to be built in space i think its a huge mistake to pin F1's future hopes on more of these technologies (and the rising costs that come with it) that the manus are currently pursing.
the above is more of a philosophical point (well rant really
)so please take it with a grain of salt.
