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« Last post by John S on April 14, 2024, 11:56:42 AM »
Charles has launched his own Ice Cream line, LEC.  There's a freezer company in Britain with the name LEC, think they even had an F1 team for David Purley in the 70s - well a single seater team anyway - wonder if they'll be consulting Lawyers?  https://f1i.com/images/505100-speedy-scoops-leclercs-icy-new-venture-hits-the-frozen-aisle.html
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« Last post by John S on April 14, 2024, 11:17:25 AM »
Adrian has identified a previously unspoken consequence of the cost cap in F1.
Basically with the cost cap stuck or even falling how are teams going to be able to retain highly qualified engineers, let alone recruit the next generation for what is supposed to be the pinnacle of motorsport?
This raises a critical question for F1 can the cost cap be maintained while fostering an environment that attracts and retains top engineering talent?
How long before standards fall from what most recognise has been the second most innovative & progressive engineering hotbed to actual war?
Below are the main paras about what Newey thinks will likely cause declining standards due to cost cap.
Is the answer a shift to a two part cost cap, one part resources & materials, with manpower/staffing as a second and more flexible allocation - in terms of inflation & market conditions?
Newey on cost cap
"I think the hidden danger of the cost cap, which none of us probably really thought about when it first came in, is that Formula 1 used to be the best paid engineering discipline in the world," Newey exclusively told RacingNews365.
"Therefore, we would be able to hire and attract from universities, the brightest young graduates, and now with the cost cap, with the amount of inflation and the cost cap not rising with inflation, that is no longer the case.
"At the same time, it is a double-edged sword as we also have start-up tech companies offering very high salaries and so now when we go to the universities, trying to attract graduates, we're no longer the best.
"Equally with our existing staff, we are losing people to tech companies and that is a real problem because it makes it difficult for us, as an industry, and not just our team, to attract the best engineers in the world.
"We are then trying to attract them on the basis of passion rather than purely because of the best salaries."
For now, no major changes are in the immediate pipeline to the structure of the cost cap, although the teams and the FIA do remain in contact and in discussions.
Above paras courtesy Jake Nichol & Aaron Deckers, Racingnews365.com, 13th April 24.
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« Last post by Andy B on April 13, 2024, 10:03:01 PM »
Pre-qualifying like we used to have!
It would make Friday interesting!
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I still think all that crap on the steering wheel should be banned, or at least reduced. Let the driver adjust, not the car. Heck, at Indy they are performing a series of adjustments all the time the car is moving during qualifying. The driver is not driving the car, he's engineering it on the fly.
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« Last post by cosworth151 on April 13, 2024, 03:25:44 PM »
Wow, a steering wheel that does nothing but steer! Great stuff, Dare! Thanks.
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« Last post by John S on April 13, 2024, 10:08:35 AM »
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« Last post by John S on April 12, 2024, 10:46:39 PM »
Thanks Dare.  A nice little blast from the past style action on the streets of Monaco. Boy those cars were beasts, and manual gear changes.
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« Last post by John S on April 12, 2024, 10:37:35 PM »
I wonder who the last F1 friver was that came from a family without money. I'd say Lewis and Fisichella is all I can remember
Surprisingly perhaps there are at least three other real non silver spoon drivers currently in F1:- Alonso, Bottas & Ocon. All of these came from families of very modest or working class means. Piastri had a similar start to Hamilton with his father taking mechanic duties in his early Karting career, although there was enough money for Oscar to be privately educated. Similarly Russell had parents of somewhat limited means, certainly not Stroll, Latifi or Norris deep pockets, his siblings were also involved in motor racing. Perez family too were of modest means and his big backer, Hamilton McLaren/Mercedes style, was from Carlos Slim's Telmex racing team. Tsunoda owes his single seater car career to Honda's Formula Dream project, it obviously required a good karting record. One presumes the family funded his Karting, at first at least. Think even more surprisingly Max can be considered somewhat similar to Lewis, Sure his father was in F1 but it seems Jos' constant tutoring, connections and Max's blinding talent got him into karts & cars without big bucks needed. Jos probably spent most of any F1 wages he earned on partying rather than family development.
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« Last post by Dare on April 12, 2024, 09:31:12 PM »
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