Poll: Engine Competition

[W.A Trichlorostyrene]

Which do you prefer?

[Purist]

Do you really have to ask?

[W.A Trichlorostyrene]

Originally Posted by Purist

Do you really have to ask?

My point is: someone posted the same poll on TrackForum. 2012 rules is winning by a country mile(96% or so). I figured out it'd be interresting to check if you'd get similar results on 10/10.

I still expect 2012 rules to win by far on 10/10, but I'm interrested to see if the margin would be as big as on TF.

[Paradise City]

2012, multiple. I'm not a fortune teller but I'm getting a vision of a whitewash.

[the real Stig]

Well the Honda has appallingly biligerant management and staff, a design manager with no experience and class A narcissism, so they should spend most of the season blowing up. Lotus has little experience and perhaps a small budget, so they'll take time to get up to speed.
Chevy has experience and limit is run by a bunch of professionals so they should get 75% of the wins.

I vote Chevy.

[Paradise City]

A close poll might be a fight between the old Dullara and the 2012 vulture as to the two choices. You know what, on that, I'm torn.

[W.A Trichlorostyrene]

Originally Posted by the real Stig

Well the Honda has appallingly biligerant management and staff, a design manager with no experience and class A narcissism, so they should spend most of the season blowing up. Lotus has little experience and perhaps a small budget, so they'll take time to get up to speed.
Chevy has experience and limit is run by a bunch of professionals so they should get 75% of the wins.

I vote Chevy.

Yea, from the St Pete qualifying times you can tell that Chevy has a big advantage on the street courses already. The Honda is rumoured to have the advantage on the superspeedways however, so it'll be very interresting to see how it plays out at Indy.

[the real Stig]

Originally Posted by W.A Trichlorostyrene

Yea, from the St Pete qualifying times you can tell that Chevy has a big advantage on the street courses already. The Honda is rumoured to have the advantage on the superspeedways however, so it'll be very interresting to see how it plays out at Indy.

Yeah they've concentrated on winning one race, that's one hell of a compromise.
Suck the whole year as long as you win the 500. Wonder if the teams knowingly signed up for that?

[NaBUru38]

One important thing about (this) engine competition is that it's sustainable. I doubt a Lola vs Dallara vs etc competition would work.

[Mr Pink]

Originally Posted by Paradise City

A close poll might be a fight between the old Dullara and the 2012 vulture as to the two choices. You know what, on that, I'm torn.

Yup, still can't believe they actually managed to make the new generation worse.

And like most other i prefer the 2012 regs engine wise.

[gttouring]

Yeah the new car did not convince me the engine failure s by electric demon or fuel was really sad. The old package actually looked graceful and elegant by comparison.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by gttouring

Yeah the new car did not convince me the engine failure s by electric demon or fuel was really sad. The old package actually looked graceful and elegant by comparison.

That's saying something.

[GTRMagic]

On the subject of engines... This story out of Europe would have to be of some concern to the teams running the Lotus engine at the moment...

Perhaps the supply issue that eliminated the Indy running was more related to finances than to technical capacity to supply

[Paradise City]

The Lotus engine is a sticker job as well. Lotus are paying John Judd to build them and sticker them and given that Judd has a fine reputation and the Lotus 2.0 people don't, we can safely assume the problem is Lotus aren't timely in paying their bills.