Red Bull has reportedly filed a complaint with the FIA over the legality of the brake ducts on McLaren’s 2024 Formula 1 car, according to Auto Motor und Sport
Red Bull has reportedly filed a complaint with the FIA over the legality of the brake ducts on McLaren’s 2024 Formula 1 car, according to Auto Motor und Sport
Hardly exclusive to Red Bull to be fair. Teams will do anything they can to get an advantage. Every team does it.
Every team does file complaints, but I feel like Horner and Toto are sort of infamous for frivolous accusations that make the other team tear their vehicles apart for inspection hoping they find something or don’t and just forget a bolt somewhere.
Point is, it should be a rule for everyone. If you make an accusation and it turns into nothing, we take a point off the constructors, or something to that effect. Penalize the principal without overly penalizing the driver’s for the principal’s soap opera antics.
Let’s leave words like ‘infamous’ and ‘frivolous’ to tabloids. Horner and Wolff are known for such actions because they both manage teams that have been fighting at the very top for years, and this is where your competitors are more likely to introduce some questionable solutions. They also get much more media attention when they complain. But neither does anything special by F1 standards.
Nah, frivolous and infamous are wholly appropriate for a message board, I’m not writing a fucking encyclopedia article.
I get where you’re coming from, but I disagree that an accusation that turns out to be nothing should be penalized. Multiple teams noticing the same (potential) breach of rules on another team’s car would wait for each other to file a complaint so they don’t risk their points. Some of these complaints also simply result in a “clarification” of the rules.
Exactly this. Protests aren’t trying to make their competitors cars illegal, it’s asking the FiA for clarification on the rules, and if it’s illegal they have time to bring it back into compliance.