The New F1 Rule To Stop Teams Cheating

F1 teams are always trying to gain an advantage, and this particular 2021 F1 rule looks to put a stop to any illegal innovations.
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[@sooofancier]

Ok. Surely!

[@ThatCyberpunkGuy]

Why is everyone making shorts channels?

[@ZeusBoiiiii]

@JACOB VIKI they already did driving and living with an f1 fan

[@NeumannKlaus]

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[@woajaeron]

@@ThatCyberpunkGuy idk free money

[@mrbloodmuffins]

If a car violates the regulations, the team boss will wake up in bed with the front wing of the car laid next to him.

[@shuktisarkar3953]

The Godfather references

[@j.paulm.1575]

Imagine being any other person in the house.

[@FrancisMarcosGaming]

The front wing being broken of course

[@desmondc.2351]

Can you explain that to me, I find it funny but partially don’t understand

[@mrbloodmuffins]

@@desmondc.2351 there's a couple steps to it: In the movie "The Godfather" the mafia intimidates a rich man by killing his prize horse and leaving the head in his bed. Then ~15 years ago Audi did a TV ad that parodied the Godfather by cutting off the front of a Rolls Royce and leaving it in the bed of the owner. Since WTF1 mentioned the cars getting dismantled, I was reminded of the ad.

[@alexandermorin9627]

I like how they stopped teams from cheating with traction control systems by just making it legal XD

[@vale.antoni]

The only way to eliminate crime 100%, after all, is to get rid of laws

[@sebastianbuse4899]

lol that changed in 2008

[@tacticalginger9623]

Ended once they made the ecu a spec part so they could easily police it

[@deafeningoctopus]

I suppose that if everything's legal, the crime rate is 0!

[@alanjm1234]

With each team able to develop their own ECU, a traction control ban could never work. TC isn't hardware, it's software, and would be easy to hide. The only way to effectively ban TC was a control ECU. This required a single engine configuration.

[@DaveMcKeegan]

I think the greatest cheat has to be the late 90's when teams worked out the start sequence and played a 'beep' in the drivers ear when the lights were about to go out.

[@ethanmagdaleno5332]

Yeah I watched a video on that one. Engineers are wildin

[@samueljayachandran2849]

they exposed them at Nurburgring in 1997 or 1998 and that was fkn hilarious.....I'm more about the vaguely interpreted rules ya know. Like there's no ABS or traction control allowed, notifying driver of wheel slip under throttle is illegal, but no word on notifying driver of wheels slipping under braking, is a brake-locking notification system legal then? Also can drivers have mechanical systems in the cockpit to enhance the way they modulate their driving inputs, like is that necessarily a driver aid because they still have to operate it, but it's just different, or is the easier mechanism an assist?

[@LordLootus]

It wasn’t a beep, the car clutch actually engaged automatically I believe

[@Hirosjimma]

sorry wut? link to that story?

[@andrewbailey7999]

@@LordLootus From what I understood it was a beep that would go off in the driver's ear about 0.2 seconds before the lights went out. They caught them out by still running the same radio signal, but manually overriding the lights to go out slightly later, without telling the teams what they were doing

[@sebastiaanvanderhaven6991]

Please make more of these theyre really enjoyable!

[@aaronrigg5208]

More rules? Sure.

[@davidpanken]

Yes! And I’m learning a lot from these as well!

[@ryanchristiansen2184]

they have made loads of F101 videos in the past

[@stephenbachman132]

Imagine being the mechanic who has to strip the 10,000 parts of the car any time asked you would be thinking. "Why"

[@bradyhill2136]

Honestly I think it’d be a pretty awesome job to just take apart and put together F1 cars for a living. I Definitely wouldn’t be complaining

[@evann5451]

@@bradyhill2136 I think it would be up to the teams to re assemble it because they’re the only ones who know exactly how their car goes together

[@benb.478]

I thought they completely disassemble the car after every race anyways.

[@leagonum4952]

Also these guys can re build one of these cars after they get sent into the wall within 24hrs.

[@tomnewham1269]

@@bradyhill2136 You might think it is awesome to rebuild an F1 car until the time when you have to stay up until 2am doing it and then be back at the garage again at 6am.

[@kingsheesh5079]

Ah yes. The no cheating rule. A very important one

[@memehorse3658]

Let's check all the teams if they're cheating except Mercedes

[@jameeboo]

@@AlmostAProPilot yeah u toom the joke seariously

[@forza3943]

@@AlmostAProPilot I mean, that's the point of the joke. Mercedes get away with cheating, that's the joke

[@paulpantea9521]

"How to stop cheating" now if someone could teach my GF that, it would be great.

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[@edzgt5243]

Time to make a change Paul

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This channel has been essential as a new f1 fan! I get a great understanding and can enjoy the sport even more thanks to y’all!

[@WTF1official]

Great to have you Matt, from Matt 😁

[@Basketballsmvp23]

@@WTF1official cheers lads

[@Sorted7]

If the FIA made it so every teams designs from 2 seasons ago had to be made available for any other team to see then it would stop cheating and allow teams lower down the grid to catch up by using the out of date bigger teams ideas and developing it in their own way.

[@CharlieHolmesT]

I like this idea, teams probably wouldn't agree to it on intellectual property grounds but I like it.

[@Sorted7]

@@CharlieHolmesT I imagine Ferrari would instantly say no!!

[@lucapalmi]

@@Sorted7 of course a normal person would say no. In 2 years the majority of the car stays the same, so it would mean that one team can copy the ideas from the others and in 10 years the cars will be all the same. This is probably the worst way to stop cheating.

[@nicolasmattelin2374]

Sounds cool but teams could really easily change some bits which would make the car terrible

[@ross_boss]

@@lucapalmi the cars being all the same would technically finally bring a close race for the entire grid

[@reecee5454]

FIA: We’re putting these in place to make racing more fair. Mercedes: Yes

[@ILYSNAF]

FIA: Taking the fun out of racing since 1904

[@tharushsomashekar]

For 2021 season : "rules to stop a team winning"

[@URL_Night]

Ahhh.... My favourite... F101

[@DoorTechnicianRick]

I can already see the FIA taking a car appart, putting it back together and having parts left XD

[@ultrasuperkiller]

Or selecting Ferarris competitors over and over again to exhaust the crew, wear & tear on parts etc

[@ilham7345]

"hmm, why there's 2 extra 10mm and one torq bolt here?" and "where tf is the 10mm socket??" Later they found the 10mm socket lodged in between compressor vanes

[@voyage8772]

i think the best way to combat cheeting or any possibility of cheeting is to ban all the teams and just show 2 hours of an empty race track on tv every weekend

[@nutchunder]

1:46 I love when stock footage producers have no idea wtf is going on

[@dhanyajayaram3541]

That Mr Bean episode is an absolute classic.....

[@redvorno]

Imagine getting in trouble by spending one extra penny on a car

[@lukecliffe7096]

Imagine they find pennies in the car

[@stratman9449]

@@lukecliffe7096 yeah...instead of sandbags.....

[@Gl-my8fw]

It would be 100% fair and deserved.

[@tetragon2137]

Spending *literally* an extra penny would probably be met with a "sweep it under the rug" approach; can you imagine how silly the headlines would look the next day? "Team Disqualified For Spending a Single PENNY over the Limit!" would be printed in sports journals up and down the country, and it would just make F1 silly in the eyes of the public. Spending a tiny amount over would probably get you a slap on the wrist and a fine, while spending egregious amounts over the limit would result in points deductions, or even a total DSQ.

[@Gl-my8fw]

@@tetragon2137 no they should be punished the same.... who cares what worthless sports journalists think.

[@FS7kills]

If a team uses something illegal that gives them an advantage instead of banning imo the FIA should force the team to share information with all other teams so that they can copy it and we'd have more balanced performance between the teams.

[@grimlock1471]

Share the technical information AND pay to retrofit any other teams that want it. Imagine the sour taste of the Ferrari team having to not only share their secrets with McLaren, but PAYING to install them on McLaren cars.

[@sb_beasti7828]

In all honesty,none of us can possibly fathom how OP F1 cars could have been by now if it weren’t for all these regulations

we probably couldve gotten to the point of races being driven in the earths orbit by now

[@jrivett4060]

we need more angles like at 2:40 . much needed to make things more interesting on Tv

[@thisdanguy]

Come on F1. You do high FOVs in your promo works too

[@jrivett4060]

@@thisdanguy exactly! Nowadays compared to the early 2000’s, everything looks so slow

[@BigPundo]

Honestly a wider fov makes such a difference, should give this a watch! kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6vEeIGioJaYgJo

[@jrivett4060]

@@BigPundo so true, shows exactly what needs to be done ✅

[@deanmantua4651]

Ferrari, probably hiding something in the car.... Also Ferrari: *Chuckles* I'm in danger

[@rikidoni24]

More like every single team, especially the top teams, FIA comes after the teams that dominate the most

[@surenraj6450]

This.

[@KingArthas]

FIA to mechanics: Ok, guys, tear this car apart to inspect it. 2 days later Mechanics after checking 10.000 parts: What were we looking for in the first place again?

[@GabrielLima-ro7ze]

I have no idea why your videos started being recommended to me but it's become one of my favourite channels already, cingrats

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i love F101, thats the reason i subbed to ur channel

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Glad you love it Aaron!!

[@FourDoorMotorsport]

Ame

[@FourDoorMotorsport]

Same

[@chinmaysutagatti540]

Wait, wasn't the Racing Point controversy regarding the Brake Ducts and not the brakes themselves.

[@joeogle7729]

I think so, for further detail I think it was allowed to be a customer part in 2019 but not allowed in 2020 and because Racing Point used the brake ducts from the 2019 car it wasn't legal.

[@chinmaysutagatti540]

@@joeogle7729 Racing Point used to use Mercedes Rear Brake Ducts in 2019 too, so they in 2020, they used a further developed version of it. But, they used to use their own Brake Ducts, and for 2020 they used Mercedes' Front Brake Ducts, which were sold to them before the regulations came into effect,but since they used them on the 2020 car, they were penalised only for the front brake ducts.

[@yourDecisi0n]

Idea: Let's just open up the regulations a bit and publish all information about (or parts of) the F1 cars every third season or so. Would bunch up the field a bit more, makes for new and fantastic innovations and reduces the costs

[@andrigtmiller]

I think it's good that they can now randomly pick any car, and do a thorough disassembly and look at the software too. It will definitely make it much more difficult to hide something that is illegal on the car. Of course, teams may come up with more innovative ways to hide things, but it gets really hard under this new rule. I would like to believe that I'm watching a fair race at the end of the day, and anything the FIA can do to make sure that that is the case is a good thing in my mind.

[@NeumannKlaus]

i think it's a good rule but i hope they don't ban sneaky innovations the made it through the rules (except it makes the racing closer)

[@superman28607]

There should be a virtual race series which teams develop without any rules virtually and have drivers compete with each other. Since the car is virtual, running cost can be substantially lower.

[@hanstubben]

Budget cap is a joke! You can "train" someone out side the company and hire this person with the knowledge (slash development) he brings with him.

[@LewisGuilfy]

what?

[@sebastianbuse4899]

mercedes: cuts track 29 times and has 8 sec lead after pits. fia: stop that, its now illegal. fia after race: we didnt change the rules..........

[@ashyknees653]

Ok, but don’t act like verstappen didn’t cut the track multiple times as well

[@sebastianbuse4899]

@@ashyknees653 oh a verstappen hater, funny how i didnt mention him and here u come biting and speaking nonsense

[@ashyknees653]

Sebastian Buse I’m not a verstappen hater, but you just say ‘Mercedes’ but red bull literally told verstappen to do the same thing because Lewis was doing it, so how am I speaking nonsense?

[@sebastianbuse4899]

@@ashyknees653 bc right after it was made ilegal when verstappen was told to do the same and couldnt... but then rules didnt change

[@ashyknees653]

Sebastian Buse it wasn’t right after, and also they told Lewis to stop cutting before they told Max to, so if you are suggesting that it’s the fia’s fault that Max lost the race, then i would have to disagree with you

[@DrLobster]

I thought Racing Point had bought the plans to both front and rear ducts in 2019, but only used the front ducts on the 2019, so when 2020 came around they used the rear ducts plans. Using the plans in 2019 would have allowed the parts to development, producing a unique piece so being allowed to race with in 2020. They didn't do this with the rear brake ducts. This is all from memory though.

[@johnmccrossan9376]

I've had an idea for the cost cap thing, if a team spends too much and develops the car more than others they have to pay for everybody else to be developed to that same level and whatever innovation they made gets temporarily made legal for that season

[@johnmccrossan9376]

@dynsty no I just thought the cost cap thing was stupid but being able to win through having money also seems like a bad thing

[@thedeamonmeteor69420]

In 1944 we had Schumacher Vs Senna But off track protesting TC of Benneton...

[@michaelhensley8203]

Perfect, when thinking about the reasons for reduced F1 attendance and viewers, not enough rules immediately comes to mind. Certainly would not want any innovative tech implementations to unset the parade.

[@GeorgeOrakan]

I was sure that they gonna include Ferrari's engine but they didn't xD

[@jannik6147]

i love how at 1:00 the under is literally under the restrictions. Nice little detail by whoever does these videos!

[@johnstudent6968]

NASCAR's had a similar rule for years, but they still usually bust one to five cars (sometimes whole teams or manufacturers) each year.

[@EvLSpectre]

I would say if the car were to not pass, they get to start from back row next race for both cars. But, they are not to know until race start, that way they cannot save tires during qual and practice. Afterwards, doc points from the team, then to reducing cost from next season or reducing development time for aero, then monetary maybe?

[@tnexus13]

No mention of ferrari? No admission of cheating, just a promise not to cheat going forward. Then a suspicious drop off in their engine performance at that exact time.

[@grimlock1471]

Why not have 1 builder that supplies cars to every single team? The teams can paint the cars and install fitted seats. Beyond that, if the spot check reveals any nonstandard parts, you are disqualified from that race.

[@MrRrosi]

I know we are all for closer racing, but cheating is such a innovative thing in f1 You bend the rules and find exploits to gain advantage, it just allows for new cooler innovations.

[@Mjdecker1234]

Thats different lol. Its already in the rule book, dont do it. The extra brake for example, nothing stated they couldnt do it, until they deemed it Illegal. So half of what you said i agree with

[@ryandoherty2398]

OK that gif of the minivana brakes was frikin hilarious

[@hammaadhussain9974]

This is golden content, just make any videos u can, as funny as u can make them and as many, as frequently

[@kaeldorWL]

Will be interesting to see which team gets caught first because of these new random inspections, what kind of illegal "part" the FIA is going to find and how long it takes until they find someone cheating.

[@shantanuseth5119]

another famous one is the BAR- 005 extra fuel tank which helped the car to be over the prescribed minimum weight requirements. The team got banned for 2 races and got a podium stripped off in the San Marino GP

[@squeakybunny2776]

Is that the one that after the race or something got fuelled up with fuel containing lead balls??

[@Dandaman1687]

If one team goes over budget they should add that much money to every other teams spending caps and fine the offending team that much

[@TheLeninTrain]

In theory, I think the rule is pretty good, I'm just a bit worried that due to logistical reasons it might turn into this: *week before the race* FIA: "We'll be looking at your car" Team: "Ok" *proceed to remove illegal car parts* *race day* FIA: "Your car looks fine, shame you came 11th in that race, we had you place at least in the top 10" Team: "Yeaaaaaaaaaah real shame that" This is me playing devil's advocate mostly because I have no idea how easy or how hard it would be to take an F1 car apart

[@mondrongo1538]

1:37 Cheque do Itau representando o Brasil!

[@afish8883]

To be fair the brakes and such were a bit blurrier when it camed to shared parts

[@OldManBadly]

There have been so many fairly obvious cheats that were never directly dealt with, such as the endless debate over flexible body work. There is also the question of the dominance of Red Bull and then Mercedes. As Vettel was once quoted as saying something like "if they ever figure out what we have been doing...." - my personal belief was engine mapping based on GPS which allowed the car a sort of traction control based on limiting engine power coming out of tighter corners, automatically switching engine mapping on the fly. Just slam it to the floor without concern. Next upshift, the car returns to it's regular mode and away you got with full power.

[@stevesolo16]

Racing Point did not use illegal brakes. It was the brake "Air Inlet" that came to question. It was a carbon fiber cover only. It was also possible to use a handheld Photogrammetry 3D scanner to steal a design last year. The practice and possession of these scanners have been made illegal for 2021. 2 brake pedals on Hakkonin's car. What constitutes an inside wheel when the car turns both right and left?

[@killakanzgaming]

Something I'm noticing more and more when I compare today's F1 to F1 from 20 or 30 years ago... Back then there was a lot more variety in design on the grid. One team's cars could be a strikingly different shape to another. Today however, due to the never ending list of regulations and specifications, they're looking more and more alike... If all the cars on the grid were painted grey, I doubt anyone would be able to tell which is which. F1 is turning into a spec series... Give it another 5 or 10 years or so and F1 probably would be a spec series, with all the cars being absolutely identical, just painted in different colours...

[@3m1lw1k2]

I’m all for the legality of the cars however I’m afraid there will be less innovation in the grey zone which is the most important part of technical development

[@musharioh]

Controling the limited budget and team spending is a nightmare that is impossible to wake up from.

[@bpeterson3270]

If they violate the cap they have to return the parts until the go back under the cap and they can’t replace them till the next season

[@SolidSonicTH]

The cost cap is a good idea but THEORETICALLY that should also mean restrictions are more relaxed or give more freedom to the engineers. If you're going to cap spending then it should be encouraging creativity and innovation. Having a myriad of nitpicks while also telling teams they can't spend a lot of money work against each other. I think every car should be based around a specific chassis configuration (in order to establish necessary safety mechanisms and give cars a standard silhouette) but anything after that should just be governed by guidelines so that constructors can determine what works best for their drivers and system components (engine, transmission, aero map, suspension, etc.).

[@arakwar]

IMO, any team going over the cost cap should see their own cap lowered by the same amount next year. And punishment should slowly ramp up without warning, so teams never know if they'll be punished or not, and by how much. Keeping this vague will prevent teams from looking at the penalty as a cost/benefit scenario.

[@FAB1150]

A possible punishment for going over budget is a big fine "You wanted to spend more money? HERE, PAY THIS!*

[@Baldorcete]

Easy. Less rules, but easier to verify compliance. For example: Aerodinamics: Do whatever you want, as long as: A wing profile X, placed N meters after the car and at M height doesn't loses more than Y lift, verified in a wing tunnel homologated by FIA. Any combination of parts should be homologated. Engine: Mandate that engine constructors should be separate entities from teams, at least on paper. FIA fix a price per engine. Any manufacturer is under the obligation to supply engines to any team who ask. Design the engine you want respecting safety constraints (No hydrazine, please). The car, at the start of the race, can´t load more than N MJ per Km, independent of the energy source used. Electronics: Electronics can do this, that and other thing, nothing more. Design and software sources should be sent to FIA, under NDA. Electronics in cars could be verified at any time by FIA. Non compliance also means the NDA is null, besides other penalties. etc...

[@joeogle7729]

Didn't the Benetton have launch control? Senna thought he heard traction control but apparently it was a really early design of the blown diffuser. I thought the whole thing was because the Benetton's launches were always freakish and they seemed to get perfect starts every race. And when the FIA did their technical analysis the teams explanation for why the launch control software still existed was "oh, how did that get in there?" Apparently it was accessed by a combination of inputs then going beyond the presets list to "option 13" it's also suspected to be the reason why J.J Lehto cocked up the start at imola because he didn't do the launch procedure correctly. Williams also still had the software for their driver aids but it was defunct and couldn't be activated even if you tried. All the benetton needed was a laptop and a bit of code and commands and it would start. I don't know if this is completely wrong but this is what I remember from Aiden Millwards video

[@freeskier6377]

no one: ferrari: 'we no cheat, we pay de fine'

[@SamBrickell]

Hard caps are stupid in sports and almost everything; Soft caps are where it's at.

[@paulcooper2897]

Engine size/displacement, fuel limits, overall dimensional limits, safety requirements (like Halo, etc), if enforcable keep the spending limit ... and then .. let them have at it and see who has the brightest "forward/ouside the box" engineers and thinkers and see what they create.

[@FlankerB3]

What about benetton's filterless fuel pumps in the pits? with higher speed fuel flow so cars can be refueled faster.

[@switzerlandch4986]

Last time I was this early there were no regulations

[@Winnister]

F101.. So much better than WTF1's other content!

[@sneakybadger]

Smashing the stock video library. I love it.

[@karlsbergkarl2230]

In motor racing if you are not trying to cheat or at least to bend the rules into a pretzel, . . . you are not trying hard enough to win.

[@luissun2103]

A good punishment would be a restriction to the budget of the next year. I.e., if a team spent 10 million above the cap this year, next year they´ll have a 135M cap. And if they spend 145M (default cap) in the year of restriction, they will again have exceed the budget in 10M, so the third year budget will be 125M. Sure, it might payoff one season to go over the budget, but would definetely compromise the team on the long run.

[@luissun2103]

Also, it's also a good way to give reasonable "fines". If the team went 1/2M over the budget, it shouldn't have the same penalties than a team that went 10M over.

[@dicktracy790]

I raced go karts 20 years ago. I learned about the sport in the US from someone who was racing midget series. They told me racing IS cheating.

[@manavmnair6975]

Literally nobody talks about his editing skills....honestly, what editing skill is he using?

[@officerfrosty55]

I think it should be allowed by only the lower teams to allow them to cause a bit more of an issue for the upper teams to keep up and make the races more "spicy"

[@youtubaer1]

When they go over the cost limit they need to drive with an F2 car without any development over the season and split the money they invested to all the other teams would be a nice punishment.

[@dahorn100011]

If you're going to talk about the Racing Point story. At least give the full story. Racing point 'claim' that they bought the designs to the Mercedes Brake ducts in 2019 before they were a listed part. They then didn't fit into the car until 2020. So while being a grey area the designs were fine to be bought when they bought them, but were not fine when actually fitted to the car

[@iPotato12]

As a casual F1 fan, these videos help bring a better understanding.

[@burgernado]

I feel like the punishment for going over the budget should scale, if you're from 5-50k over you lose 1 point, every 50-100k removes one more point

[@lauriedepaurie]

They can pull random cars at random moments apart without telling why. It sounds like a fair way to police, but it also shows a lack of transparency...again. Sometimes it seems like F1 draws 'fair' rules with an asterisk so, if necessary, they can enforce rules differently between different teams. Like track limits, fuel regulations, copying design etc. I'm not saying they are, but from a spectator's point of view, the inconsistent ruling and cloudiness surrounding the rules do give the impression that fair play isn't no.1 priority.

[@t3h51d3w1nd3r]

ive always wondered if some clever engineer has figured a way to make the ers motor into an ad hoc traction control, I mean we know its active in deploying and recovering electrical power to the drivers liking and with the level of complexity now it could be done purely with software, there is the protection mode that stops sudden engine revs that the Fia monitor

[@anirudhr6052]

Max Moseley would be Jean Todt's advisor, if team disqualifications are given as punishments. It's so weird to senna in a Williams suit after seeing him in a McLaren for all his accomplishments.

[@gogogomes7025]

For real, one of the things i find most interesting in F1 it's the very clear cut notion that it's only cheating if you get caught, it gives an edge to an otherwise very posh sport

[@carbis439]

Honestly, I'm not a fan of all of the rules and regulations or whatever. But I feel the cost cap is a relatively fair one? It definitely aids some of the teams with smaller budgets. The only thing I would change is that I'd take out the costs of the safety features. Sure, have a cap on everything that helps the car improve and actually run - but the costs of the mandatory safety features would not be counted towards the cap. (Also, with this cap being a rule to aid smaller teams - bringing back more options in engines, tyres and more wouldn't be that bad, considering a bigger engine would cost more; meaning that there is now more sacrifice to those decisions). ^so it would be cool to see those options brought back.

[@jeffreytenthije]

The fact that this was uploaded "just" released before the f1 2021 announcement

[@WilliamJasonSherwood]

They really need to introduce a minimum aerodynamic features size. Say no body part can be smaller than 3cm square.

[@carlzimmerman5830]

If a team spends more than the budget cap, they should have to pay the equivalent of the difference to the lowest spending/budget team.

[@slimj091]

Honestly the part I hate about F1 the most is the politics in teams protesting other teams innovations. The only regulations on team inovations in F1 should be for safety reasons. As long as it doesn't make the car more dangerous for it's driver or for the other drivers on the track then it shouldn't be banned even if it gives that team a massive advantage.

[@bigmac9800]

I wonder how the cost cap will work towards the employees of the big teams? Mercedes has 1500 employees, do they sack most of them? I don’t get how that works because I never heard a team moan that they have to fire their employees

[@Thefrogbread]

I love the WTF1 editing style

[@ev06863]

How to control teams breaking the cost cap??? How about for every dollar you go over the cost cap the following season you will have your cap reduced by the same value you went over. In this system the FIA would be allowed to disassemble any teams car who break the cost cap to determine if the excess funds allowed a competitive advantage to the team in question. If a advantage is found the the normal sporting regulations and rules would come into effect.

[@gaulol]

"1 penny over and you're in trouble"... what's the punishment? a 20k fine?

[@mholden020]

Can’t find a comment where it’s been said, but Grosjean saying they were using the electronic bias adjuster isn’t proof because it’s basically hearsay, plus one person’s word does not mean proof. I was a technical inspector for a few racing series and you wouldn’t believe how many drivers who had been let go from a team would come up to us talking about illegal stuff on their old car! Doesn’t mean it wasn’t there, but angry racing drivers will say almost anything to take a jab at a former team.

[@whysrumgone]

No mention of Ferrari's engine...... The FIA found the engine was designed to be able to by-pass the sensors, but couldn't prove they had done so during a race, much like Benneton's Option 13 being available, but not detectible after the fact.

[@4rtur_r0d]

1:38 e o Itaú faz uma participação especial kkkkkkkk 🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@caioalves7096]

Ia comentar isso agora KKKK tive que voltar pra ter certeza que vi certo

[@djip123]

Has ANYONE noticed those -15 points Racing Point got, actually lost them 3rd place in the constructors standings?

[@lukerapley9053]

Question, if they have to pay a fine would that come out of their budget for the season? I'd assume not but it would defo add even more pressure on teams to race legit.

[@betty_swalocks3250]

I’m surprised you didn’t include Ferrari’s illegal fuel flow in 2019

[@ianblair8515]

Does every team have to hang a picture of Chairman Mao in their office as well lol I'm kidding its for the best

[@janklas7079]

I have a rule which is airtight: rule nr. 1.3.4 subsection2: 'Ferrari shall not cheat'

[@ExtraLeben]

saw the 2003 suzuka gp yesterday in a rerun ...maaan those 6s pit stops with refueling xD