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Originally Posted by Fabs
That is not technically true. They knew updates were allowed, but those were only to help teams improve on the reliability. Renault didn't have any issues on this side and so didn't need an update. The problem was, that "some" teams used the updates to gain power, and so renault (and Honda) who had an engine on par with everyone else at the time of the so called engine freeze, found themselves with underpowered units once those other teams finished updating their powerplant. This is why Renault and Honda were allowed to update their engines for this year.
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Sorry Fabs, I agree with you on this, what I meant was most teams except them saw the loophole of "make it more reliable, and oops it happens to be faster too", whereas they missed it!
And actually yeah rules were published back in 2006, but there's a big difference between asking "Charlie, can we make our rear crash structure a diffuser", and "Charlie, optimizing the strength/packaging of our rear crash structure has led to a different shape, is this shape ok?".
I just have no sympathy with Renault on this stuff since spygate!