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Max's press conferencehttp://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=28288Either the man is really so well versed in rhetorics or maybe he for the first time actually explained the ideas in more detail, but I must say that the F1 future as he envisioned it suddenly makes a lot more sense to me. I was really uneasy with the whole engine homologation proposals, but seeing that this is a stepping stone towards a completely new approach of F1 engine design it makes rather good sense for a lot of reasons that the engines as they are now aren't really being developed further. The only problem with this approach is all the engineers already working on the engines and the fact that it would leave many of them out of jobs, especially if the way for the future isn't set in stone soon in order for them to focus on new things. But then again, a lot of the F1 cost is personell so any serious cost cutting will have that effect anyway. I completely agree that shifting the focus away from developing ever faster revving engines and towards better efficiency (which with a fixed fuel flow is still a quest for more power, just in a different way) and regenerative braking brings F1 closer to being a pinnacle of actually meaningful engineering. In this sense, the dig towards the Japanese as to them looking for an excuse in the new regulations to exit F1 gracefully is perhaps not without merit. Oh, and then the questions from the journalists; I usually don't even realize who it is that is posing the question, but when the one about qualifying crops up and has absolutely nothing to do with the topic of the press conference I had to look up who the clueless one was asking it. Now, we don't get James Allen on our coverage here and so I always assumed that he was being ridiculed just as about any local F1 commentator is. I have to say that now I sympathize Wink |