http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/94904 Evidently Brawn is mift regarding the lack of proper auditing of the RRA even going to the extent of comparing it to traction control auditing after traction control was banned. Brawn is obviously upset because he downsized the team with the assumption that everyone would be downsizing which of course did not happen, and now Brawn and MB are still adhering to the rules (supposedly) yet obviously playing a lot of catch up. A more thorough and standardizes audit makes sense to me. The teams all went to a standardized engine ECU so why should this be any different. Unfortunately what is included in 'standardized' is probably going to be the subject of arguing for years to come.
I'm against it. Not saying this as a Ferrari fan but simply because it cannot be enforced/controlled. Having an ECU is one thing, but trying to impose a corporate police to see where the employees are hiding is another. If it were enforcable, it is still debatable whether this rule makes any sense: F1 is all about capitalistic power at its best and not an eco series. So why not let the big ones be big. Toyota despite the biggest budget of them all failed. Money alone isn't everything. And yes of course the big teams are cheating by hiding their F1 team members in their traditional org charts as regular employees cross matrixed over to the F1 project. Right. Only the really small teams like Virgin are living by this standard and I'm somewhat surprised that Mercedes was naive enough to live by it too. Must be the German side in them that believes in authority and regulations. Jawoll mein Herr.
I agree with that perspective. It would be a bureaucratic nightmare coming to an agreement on anything. However, simple things should be agreed upon though. Full disclosure etc
Quite frankly I'm amazed they came to an agreement about wind tunnel testing and doubt even that is enforceable.
