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Yes , Peter, the number of times some callow youth, after telling me my specs are rose tinted , will squawk ' But you can't uninvent technology ' . Said as if it were the end of the argument rather than the beginning of one .
Excuse the plug, but as I argued in the F 1 chapters of my book (Amazon / 'all good bookshops' - Driven -an elegy) all F1 needs is good legal draughtsmen , working with engineers to write the regs . Of course the game is to look for loopholes but the approach works well enough .
Because F 1 cannot have , or no longer has -
4 wd
ABS
Fully automatic gearbox
Enclosed bodywork
Gas turbine power
6 wheels
Driver adjustable aero - except DRS
Pukka ground effect
...and a whole heap of other stuff , None has been uninvented , just outlawed , and very successfully so .
Ironically , as the current regs stand , F1 is by the far the closest it has ever been to a spec formula , with different race shops building essentially the same car but somehow still managing to spend grotesque amounts of money..
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