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Detuned Cosworth V10's for next season :(
if they're already developing a V8, why not give it too minardi !!!
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Max doesn't like PS, so he might decide to make the limit very low as a means of punishing PS for all the shit he's stirring !!!!
I hope I'm wrong though !!!!!
If at all.
Anyway, I don't like this at all. He wants to tide over the period until 2008 and then he thinks it will get better but nothing is certain yet.
Where's the bloody ambition?
PS can't have weighed up the balance of performance and expenditure, because no one has decided yet what the performance level for V10s will be. One thing is for sure, the manufacturers investing millions against their will in V8s will not be prepared to let a cheapo V10 from a rival look comparable. Therefore the only guarantee is that Minardi have the worst engine on the grid.
Cosworth will now remain in F1, but unless Frank signs up for the V8s (I can't see that happening, but you never know), they will be there on much the same basis as Stoddart - "let's hang around until 2008, and then we'll see."
Seriously, it feels crap, because in all likelihood this means next season is set in stone. No escape from the last place, so we have to hope the remainder of 2005 will provide us with some good moments.
However, is there really another option? Look at Jordan - their car is horribly void of sponsor stickers. Same goes for us too, unfortunately. The OzJet branding just works as a clever disguise, but it doesn't rake in the big dollars.
Going V8 next season would have meant more expensive engines and probably a costly redesign of the car. If you just throw the V8 into a back of a car designed for a V10, chances are you're likely to have trouble.
Of course, we SHOULD have the money to redesign the car yearly anyhow. However, sadly we don't and that's just something ones has to live with.
Of course, the daft change in engine regs is really to blame, which is really Stoddart's point. Maybe the early declaration is all a part of that sordid little game - particularly given the pointed comments PS made ahead of the announcement.
Get ready for the arguments over the level of detuning, the accusations of personal vendettas etc.
It seems with the timing of this it's been the plan all along so what was the point? Any gains made this year are right down the drain when the new engine regs go into effect.
This is complete bullshit- everyone else is going forward under the exact same conditions. Redesign the car to accept the V8 and get the best price you can from Cosworth, wait til Jordan decides and use the leverage you may gain from being the only probable customer. Or quit.
The two good things (I can think of) are: 1) Minardi saves a lot of money. Cheap engines and no need for a redesign next year. 2) The rew limit will make the V10 produce less power than the new V8's, but maybe not that much less. The FIA has nothing to gain by having Minardi going 3-4 seconds off the pace because they use a V10. I think the rew limit for the V10 will be adjusted to make the power output slightly lower than for the worst V8 engine out there. Minardi will have the worst engines of all the teams, but that's no different than how it is today.
they have used the engine for one race and both cars did'nt make it halfway through that race.
sound like a lot of hot air from Stoddart again, always trying to make things sound better than they are.
It's a press release, get over it.
No, seriously, that's a good question. I don't know. Perhaps Stoddart is hoping that he can convince the others to be lenient when it comes to restricting the V10. How he plans to manage that remains to be seen. Never. If the alternatives are a Lada Niva or closing the doors, I say paint the Niva black and BRING IT ON BABY!
Yes the V10 will be detuned to match the crappier V8s, but while they're screaming their experimental guts out the old cosworth big block will just be lugging along.
Actually, I suppose this means no new chassis until 2008.
Really Minardi can't win in here.
If they didn't build a new car this year we would have gone nuts.
If we didnt take the V8.....etc....etc.
Let's see how the rules pan out, who know Mosley might go and V10s stay?? In the end an F1 car with anything less than a V10 is a farce.
Might as well run them with little 1600cc 4 cylinder engines.....
http://www.telegraaf.nl/telesport/formule1/20498841/Minardi_ook_volgend_jaar_met_Cosworth-motoren.html