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Originally Posted by swayze08
wow its like oople has spys in the f1 world how do u all have so mutch info on renult
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Haha, there are definately at least one F1 insider contributing to this thread!
When you say Renault (and Honda missed the engine loophole- yes they did really. Sadly for them they were too honest for thier own good and when the FIA said 'give us your engine specs at the end of the Brazil race and they'll be frozen for 4 years unless there are reliability issues', Renault and Honda gave in their engines. Merceedes, Ferrari and BMW all took the latest, but so far unreliable developments, put them in the frozen engine handed that up and then spent 4 months and £££ to make them reliable again but keeping the extra power.
What it proves at the end of the day is that the FIA aren't serious about anything they say in the sport, cutting costs, freezing engines, slowing the cars or increasing overtaking.
And it suits the FIA that Brawn are fast because now they can say that 'look, we made it cheap and privateer teams are beating the big boys'. But no-one is aknowledging that the Brawn was designed by Honda with a massive budget, massive staff, two wind tunnels and a year to design the car. Brawn aren't a privateer. They had all the staff and budget of the full Honda Factory team until two weeks ago. Now the moneys gone and they've lost 275 staff, we can wait and see if/how long they get gobbled up by the people with resources. But they should have the first half of the championship sown up, that that is often enough to coast to the finish.
Th eother 7 teams will have to design and test new floors, new upper bodies (side pod/engine cover), exhausts pipes, ancillary bits and rear wings before they can hope to catch Brawn, and for some teams like Red Bull, they'll also need a different gearbox. £££££££££!!!
Renault will a have one set of the first generation bits this weekend for Fernando, maybe a second set for Nelson if they can finish them in time.
I think they're the first. The other teams are talking about R4 or R5 before they can have thier first generation double deck diffusers.
From what I've heard.........