F1 Fanatic

Like I said, I don’t care about the teams. And I might be going after Ferrari, but they had a discreet veto over the rules for years. All they had to do is say they didn’t like it, and the rules would be changed – even if all the other teams agreed to it. They could have easily manipulated the sport to suit themselves, misleading everyone so that they could win.

But this isn’t about Ferrari and McLaren. This is about McLaren’s exhaust system.

It may sound like fence-sitting, but both teams do their fair share of complaining if the other has an innovation they haven’t invented.
There’s no risk to protesting, you don’t lose anything, you’re just in the same situation. The protest being upheld though gives you an advantage.

All the top teams do it. Who protested McLaren’s F-duct? It wasn’t Ferrari, it was Red Bull.

In a sport so intensely competitive, with large gains to be made from protesting, I’d be disappointed if they didn’t try to gain an advantage over their rivals through the protest system.

Look, all teams complain at some point. Accept it!

On McLarens octopus, I like the idea but I dont see why the FIA would have banned the material. Feel sorry for Mclaren if that is the case (unless it was banned prior to them developing it then they are stupid). Fair play to them for trying to be innovative. Last year they had the F-Duct, this year the octopus. This is what F1 is about!!

I just read an article at ScarbsF1 stating that Ferrari was not allowed to use exotic materials for their exhaust, so this may not be favoring one team over the other. Still, have a little faith. Engineers are quite inventive and given time, they ‘ll find other solutions!

Ferrari haven’t had anything banned because they have had Ferrari International Assisantance on their side for most of the 90′s and 00′s!

C’mon guys, get off PM’s case. I think he meant it as half a joke and the other half, a reality.

When we think of a team who is going to complain first, we think of one: Ferrari. This is the case because since the early 90”s to late 00′s, they do complain on an average of once every season. But in the last couple of seasons, McLaren seems to be the team, but whatever they complain about, they don’t hear their right answer, whereas when Ferrari complain, THEY DO HEAR their right answer.

Yes, I am a McLaren fan because of LH, but they did get on my nerves in 2010 complaining every race about Red Bull’s equipment. It was funny as well, just made me chuckle.

It’ll be very interesting to see what comes of this. I hope Scarbs has a full post on it after Melbourne.