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F1 News & Discussions => General F1 Discussion => Topic started by: John S on April 02, 2014, 12:35:32 PM
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Never mind the noise - look at unbelievable technical turnaround.
Whilst examining the noise debate in the new look F1 Graham Keilloh, in an article on F1times.co.uk - see extract below, notes some much bigger and wide reaching results from the 2014 grid.
I was particularly struck by the para showing how F1 has surpassed everyone's expectations in getting most of the field over the line in Melbourne - and at a considerable pace as well.
But we also should not think of the new formula we have as akin to the sport being marched down an avenue at gunpoint. There is tremendous positive opportunity for F1 associated with the new power units too. Technological progress will matter much more to the planet than any amount of recycling. And the big brains of F1 combined with the intensity of competition will move the turbo/hybrid technology on considerably – as intimated earlier they probably already have – and this would be close to impossible to replicate elsewhere. Only times of war rival it, and F1 for all of its faults is much less harmful than war! -
As Darren Heath (a photographer in F1) noted post Melbourne having witnessed the new cars close at hand and in the main functioning beautifully after just 12 days’ testing time: ‘just imagine – outside the world of F1 – how long getting this right would have taken. Many company bosses in the wider automobile world would pay billions for such expertise, rigour and result’.
Indeed, we’ve already witnessed it: that in a few months of the 2009 season wherein a handful of F1 teams used KERS that the technology went from something almost entirely abandoned by the car industry to something that features routinely on cars in the showroom. And I recall discussions on forums in advance of this introduction insisting that F1 was headed down a blind alley: never underestimate the grey matter of the F1 technical teams.
- See more at: http://www.f1times.co.uk/news/display/08660#sthash.PaIiZloh.dpuf