Re: The Max speaketh again..

fajp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Da Frank) writes:
> http://www.formula1.com/news/3894.html
>
> Hmng.. there are some good and bad in there.
>
> But this is plain weird :
> <quote>
> - New technologies which give a team an advantage for one season but
> which are then adopted by all teams for subsequent seasons at
> significant expense will be banned after the end of the first season
> (Article 2.5).
> Reason: To reduce costs. This allows a team which discovers a new
> technology to benefit from it, but prevents Formula One as a whole
> then spending money on the same technology only to leave all the teams
> in exactly the same (relative) positions as before.
> </quote>
>
> So a team will have to come up with something great, in the knowledge
> that if the others can't match it in other ways, they'll all just have
> to copy it so it would be binned ? WTF is the incentive for any of
> them to innovate ?

I think it says "you've got one year's free cheating, and your
competitors will never be able to use what you've discovered".
That way they have an incentive to innovate each and every year.
Or maybe I'm just trying to put on a brave face.
We'll see.

Phil
--
What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
-- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), The Twilight of the Gods
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