Is It Vettel Or The Car?

[Panther_99FS]

-> http://msn.foxsports.com/speed/formula-1/vettel-using-secret-exhaust-blown-solution/
-> http://msn.foxsports.com/speed/formula-1/marko-says-vettel-cheat-claims-nonsense/

 

[Ferry_vO]

Vettel was 2.5 seconds faster than Rosberg on the first lap, and a second on the next laps with a car that doesn't sound anything like the other 21 cars..

Here's what former F1 team owner Gian Carlo Minardi thinks:

http://www.pitpass.com/50014/Minardi-questions-Vettels-Singapore-superiority

 

[Panther_99FS]

And now, it's a matter of perspective.

1) Do you take a NASCAR perspective where everything should be even & by the book?

2) Or do you take a traditional F1 perspective where it's "sucks to be you, work on your car more for next year"?
This is how arguably Button & Andretti won their championships in a car that was head & shoulders above the rest of the field.

 

[Ferry_vO]

Apparently RBR found yet another tiny loophole in the book (As I'm sure NASCAR teams are looking for those too) where they managed to sneak in a bit of code in the mandatory ECU.
You are allowed to deviate 2% from the standard, and that's what they did. The best trick is of course that it's hard to replicate, and once the season starts, you are no longer allowed to change it so the other teams will have to wait until next year to apply the same trick, by which time it will most likely be banned!

 

[Panther_99FS]

Loophole isn't a rule though. :mixedsmi:

 

[Panther_99FS]

so the other teams will have to wait until next year to apply the same trick, by which time it will most likely be banned!

And once everything is banned, F1 will hit a point to where it's good ol' "spec" racing just like here in the US with Indycar & NASCAR.