F1 bans KIRS
16 years ago
Kenetic Energy Recovery System. Look it up.
Nice advancement in Technology. And they ban it.
Whats next? Back to carburetor based motors? Yay, lets become NASCAR....(which, if you don;'t get the jab, STILL does not have fuel injection. so much for the car of Tomorrow).
I think KIRS was great, it was a nice addition. But since F1 is dumping badly when it comes to money...they decided to BAN it. Wonderful. That is some of the most stupid logic i have run across.
Nice advancement in Technology. And they ban it.
Whats next? Back to carburetor based motors? Yay, lets become NASCAR....(which, if you don;'t get the jab, STILL does not have fuel injection. so much for the car of Tomorrow).
I think KIRS was great, it was a nice addition. But since F1 is dumping badly when it comes to money...they decided to BAN it. Wonderful. That is some of the most stupid logic i have run across.
Finally it has scared me all season long as it really doesn't seem very safe to have on a race car in case of an accident that punctured it.
Racing isn't cheap. If i wanted cheap, Iw ould watch NASCAR. Or SCCA (which is my favorite kind of racing).
But also, the attitude of the annoucer of "Electric cars belong on the road, not the track" is just backward thinking, and i think part of what permeates.
So why did they BAN it, instead of just not making it a requirement (which it was OPTIONAL to begin with)? To me it seems if the team can afford it (and very few could) they should be able to use it
The main fear with the costs is that if costs kept going up the little teams would all drop out and some of the bigger teams would drop out and we'd eventually be down to only 12-16 cars per a race.
My big underlying anger is thier attempts to be a "cheaper" formula. F1 is supposed to be that rarified atmosphere.