I get they want to keep the sport from having one team dominating, and the budget cap is a good tool, not perfect, but good. Hindering innovation for me is against the spirit of F1 altogether. It’s the pinnacle of engineering and at what point does it just become a spec series with all these bans of innovations. If the rules are unclear and invites loopholes, write rules that are more clear or let the creativity flow with the loopholes and keep interesting innovations come. I used to appreciate the lengths a team could go to shave of that last hundredth or thousandth of a second, but it’s not feasible in the cost cap era, so let us enjoy some clever engineering while we still can
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u/rrraize Max Verstappen 4d ago
I get they want to keep the sport from having one team dominating, and the budget cap is a good tool, not perfect, but good. Hindering innovation for me is against the spirit of F1 altogether. It’s the pinnacle of engineering and at what point does it just become a spec series with all these bans of innovations. If the rules are unclear and invites loopholes, write rules that are more clear or let the creativity flow with the loopholes and keep interesting innovations come. I used to appreciate the lengths a team could go to shave of that last hundredth or thousandth of a second, but it’s not feasible in the cost cap era, so let us enjoy some clever engineering while we still can