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Technical Parity has served the category really well for decades and is a key part of the foundations on which it has been built. However we should always be open to new ideas, particularly as there are now different capacity engines in play.
The transient dyno looks like it could be one of those and now that there is one in Australia that the Supercars tech people have confidence in, it may provide the last piece of the puzzle that enables tech parity to work across engine design / size variations. When both Ford & Holden were running 5L, pushrod engines the current system worked well (acknowledge that it wasn't as good for others running multivalve engines).
In a formula with restricted revs, four-valve, DOHC engines don't get to deliver the usual benefits of that design and it seems that we're seeing that at the moment from what is being said by the Ford group. If a transient dyno is able to sort out the wheat from the chaff, then it'll help identify clearly how the different engines match up against each other.
No reason that Tech Parity can't continue in that case - only have to look at the various comments and threads about BoP on 10/10ths to understand that it isn't ideal either - so it may be a case of "the devil you know".
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