Mass damper and FIA

"I believe it was grossly unfair to ban mass damper technology and was a real blow to Renault which had this sorted better than any of their rivals. ...
The damper was a very clever way if improving performance and should have been left alone"

Gordon Murray talking about mass damper.

"The issue of who decides the legality of technical innovations in F1 was never settled; if anything the opposite. It was the first of those examples where the FIA has said that in its opinion something is legal, so you build it and race it, then someone else says that in their opinion it isn't, and you have to take it off again. Which is a quite frustrating business, as you can imagine. The net result is that teams sometimes spend a load of money in the belief that something is OK, only to find out it is subsequently banned"

Adrian Newey giving an insight of FIA technical thinking, in relation to McLaren attempt to use brake-steer in 1997, very applicable to 2006 mass damper saga.