@paeschli Given how many Ferrari fans were claiming Mercedes were cheating with DAS and the FIA were helping them out with it, Id say its not hard to argue the opposite of what you said. Try not to fall into some mindset though that all innovation in F1 is gone. After Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc switched to the hard tyre compound for the final stint, he passed the championship challenger twice. (I dont think its a coincidence that Mattias talking about the effects of 2020 developments on 2021, and this may have been Ferraris incentive to settle. Thats it, he tells the customs official, Im 65 today, Im retiring., Grant me confidential immunity from prosecution, and Ill tell all, he replies. They wont say Ferrari didnt break the rules, but wont say they did, either. But the one question I would love to ask the FIA is, At any point during an official race of the FIA Formula One World Championship of 2019, did the Ferrari SF90 burn more than the allowed 100kg/hr in combustible fuel?. Use motorsport.com without any advertising banners, personalized tracking and commercials for a small fee. The only thing that puzzles me is why the statement the FIA issued wasnt explicit about the fact Ferrari had done nothing wrong. In 2019, Ferrari courted controversy as opponents questioned the Scuderia's significantly enhanced power unit. Rivals have been sceptical over the legality of the Italian team's power unit and how it was operated since as early as the first quarter of the 2018 season, though recent revelations have thrown the topic into chaos. Look at Button with the blown diffuser? This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Just a small clarification, I wasnt suggesting cooling the fuel, but exploiting a small temperature difference between the temperature measurement point and the flow sensor. In response to Verstappens second pit stop, Leclerc said they erred by pulling him into the pits too soon and fitted the hard tyres. Only Ferrari (and maybe FIA) knows the binary truth. If you cant see the difference between DAS ( which the FIA has not rules is illegal for 2020) and what Ferrari may or may not have been doing, requiring the governing body to enter into a secret settlement with a team on the grid, then you really are blind. This is why, transparency is you know, important. At the C41s debut, he commented, I think the relationship with Ferrari is going extremely well.. Credit: F1i Also that if the team was getting different engines to Ferrari, that would be a direct breach of regulations that the FIA would have no incentive to hide. If it was legal, Ferrari would have shouted it out from the mountain tops about how they were wronged. The three Ferrari-powered teams had a difficult time maintaining their 2019 pace in 2018, losing the most lap time of any team on the grid. All this has been denied by a well-informed German magazine Auto Moto und Sport, which has always been very reliable over the years, but has also always been very closely linked to Mercedes. Personally, I think that Ferrari were found guilty. By 2008, with Champ Car on the bring of collapse, the two series finally merged, but the damage had been. Nonetheless todays IndyCar championship retains a reputation for spectacular racing with its single-specification chassis and features a broad range of circuits including road, street and traditional American oval courses. A little software manipulation and you can hold the pressure in the lines back until you need it. It does seem as though it has had a tangible effect on their performance though. If others dont know, theyre not going to be tempted to come up with fiddly interpretations of the ruling that would mean the FIA has to spend another 4 months in 2020 dissecting anyone elses engines (I cannot imagine that was a fun task). Williams was kicking butt with their active suspension, out with that. In 2019, Ferrari courted controversy as opponents questioned the Scuderia's much enhanced power unit. As was to be expected, Ferraris competitors were not pleased and continue to call for the settlements specifics to be made public. I actually think the same. Maybe like we saw last year where there were discrepancy between the declared fuel and the actual fuel, thus if Ferrari want to keep using their trick, FIA can always test Ferrari every time and probably will found that discrepancy every time. The new Alfa Romeo car has also got a new Ferrari power unit. However, there are a lot of things well examine to see what we could have done differently. Check out the brand new Puma range on the official Formula 1 store! And if Ferrari wasnt guilty they would have happily made a non-guilty statement to boost their image and counter the cheating accussations from last season. 2) Ferraris car was illegal under at least one interpretation of the letter of the law, but is legal in at least one reasonable interpretation of the letter of the law. The team allegedly used a software program to manipulate the fuel readings, which allowed them to get an advantage over their competitors. Who will replace Hamilton on the British F1 throne? Ferrari has been subtly accused of cheating in a statement by the international auto association, FIA. Patrick (@paeschli) 2nd March 2020, 15:11. However American open-wheel racing has a chequered history. Ferrari / By The GearShifters Team Salo disclosed that the primary cause of the loss of power was due to the FIA punishing Ferrari and its client teams by requiring them to utilize less fuel. The collaboration with Ferrari is, I think, going very well, he said at the launch of the C41. Colin Chapmans dual chassis ground effects car, within the rules then banned. Salo disclosed that the primary cause of the loss of power was due to the FIA punishing Ferrari and its client teams by requiring them to utilize less fuel. Months later, prior to the start of the 2020 season, after what the FIA called a thorough technical investigation, motorsports governing body reached a secret agreement with Ferrari. Heres a thought for you all What if Ferrari actually WANTED the ambiguous press release? they can accuse me all they want and I wouldnt care. Ferrari had its worst season in F1 in 40 years and came P6 in the constructors. Thank you for signing up! What road relevance is there in burning intercooler fluids, but managing direct injection fuel systems . Our direction is good. But Ferrari are such a huge part of F1 that if they were openly charged and found guilty of cheating all of F1 would suffer greatly. Stating it directly is technically superfluous (although it would have been good PR practise). Also, teams routinely have differences of opinion over the interpretation of certain regulations, even when the FIA appears to have made its opinion on a given matter clear. Ferraris engine lost power and the Scuderia as well as its customer teams suffered as a result. Agree completely. Completely agree, it would be stupid for any team to discover a loophole that provides a significant gain and not take advantage of it as long it is legal. Just like the FIA, I knew they were doing it, I just dont know exactly how. which means Ferrari were circumventing the rules with clever technical cheatery! Ferrari is the cynosure of all eyes after the team's disastrous previous season and much of the discussion behind their failures are attributed to their alleged "cheating" that irked the other team principals Ferrari courted controversy in 2019 when rivals raised questions about the Scuderia's much-improved power unit. Why? Exactly. Promoted content from around the web | Become a RaceFans Supporter to hide this ad and others, lucho19 (@lucho19) 3rd March 2020, 21:46, When the dust settles.watch out for the new regulations update to cover the loophole discovered by Ferrari, eljueta (@eljueta) 2nd March 2020, 14:02. It has set a precedent though, which should be interesting within itself. Then Ferrari filed a lawsuit against a McLaren worker, eventually identified as lead designer Mike Coughlan. Remember the FIA put in a rule for 2021 allowing it to ban things that are blatantly using loopholes. NS Biker (@rekibsn) 2nd March 2020, 19:25. Alfa Romeo boss Fred Vasseur believes Ferrari will recover a lot of last years lost pace. Ferrari at the start of the 2020 season announced a secretive agreement with Formula 1, but no one technically accused Ferrari of cheating. That is why Dieters take makes sense; if now the FIA knows how it could be done by Ferrari, but to get that knowledge they had to promise not to punish or tell (and, even if they know it was there, like the Benetton software mode, they cannot prove it was used!) (Note that Haas, despite also having one of its engines taken for investigation at the same time as Ferrari, is not mentioned anywhere in this statement, as youd expect to happen to a completely innocent party investigated alongside someone whose situation is more complicated. Tifoso1989 (@tifoso1989) 3rd March 2020, 9:30. Its simple really, if another team (who isnt your favourite team) does something that will make them faster and your favourite team hasnt then the fanboys scream cheating. As far as we know at the moment, based on whats be written on both cases, neither team has cheated, Mercedes DAS system is completely legal and Ferrari havent been found to have been cheating with their engine/the FIA cant prove exactly how they are cheating in a court of law. (In other words, it is analogous to the When is a hole not a hole? question with the double-diffuser on the Brawns in 2009). It may well be user can select what frequencies are used, so maybe this isnt an issue, but it could also be the manufacturer didnt give the user that option. Arthur (@aegges66) 2nd March 2020, 16:08. Even if they were cheating, which we dont know for sure, if I were the FIA Id let them do it cause nobody is going to get close to Mercedes. at Mon, May 15, 2023, 4:00PM EDT - U.S. markets open in 7 hours 33 minutes. My guess is that they wont. As a crude illustration of the concept, imagine the fuel runs through a pipe in the engine bay, shielded from airflow, to the temperature sensor, and then through a bit more fuel pipe thats right in the cooling airflow to the flow sensor. if the fia start playing silly beggars then Ferrari should pull out of f1 and race in the usa. Why give away your advantage to then agree taking on the expense of paying the FIAs emissions research R&D cost? And whatever was being done may not have been legal but it may not have been illegal either. The details of the agreement remain undisclosed . That is a really interesting perspective. If everything found was legal, grey area or not, FIA would have stated that the engine was completely legal. dominance of last years season. Of course because you cant have teams or suppliers innovating or been clever in the modern era can you. In 2019, Ferrari courted controversy as opponents questioned the Scuderia's significantly enhanced power unit. 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