Your opinion on 'Drag Reduction System'

I thought that 'equivalency formula' was when you get two cars that are built to different regulations competing? Like with the BTC versus Super2000 versus NGTC ?

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Originally Posted by AndyL

I agree with that assessment. Equivalency formulas (formula as in equation, not as in recipe) are about adjusting different sets of technical regulations to make them evenly matched.

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And what do you think is the effect of imposing a certain engine formula, limiting the revs to 18000 / min and then freezing it?! :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by ioan

And what do you think is the effect of imposing a certain engine formula, limiting the revs to 18000 / min and then freezing it?! :rolleyes:

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That's not an equivalency formula, for the reasons given by others above — as stated, an equivalency formula is when efforts are made to even out the performance of, say, turbo or non-turbo cars.

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Originally Posted by Rollo

Formula One IS an "equivalency" formula. There are loads and loads of regulations including engine capacity, number of cylinders, control tyres, dimensions of body work, car widths, car lengths, ride height, weight distribution, centre of gravity, location of various fluid systems... <Yul Brynner> etcetera, etcetera, etcetera </Yul Brynner> and extends to 72 pages of formula. For goodness sake, it's even called Formula One.

It's only in the rarefied atmosphere of the uppermost tiers of motorsport where thousandths of a second in difference in performance count.

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I'd more say it's a formula intended to limit maximum performance. Based on "equivalency" you would think there are spec cars on the track, and that the Virgin should be just as fast as the Red Bull.

And in the current Formula, they have DRS and KERS. Like it or not it's here for now.

well carving through all the bullish!t posts here - I kinda like the system so far.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

Yes, those certain ones (no matter how many) that, at any one time, have formed the basis of the technical regulations. The term 'equivalency formula' is a modern phenomenon that I consider to be entirely removed from the basic application of technical regulations to the formula.

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Hear, hear

Today's motorsport is about parity, cost cutting and the 'show'.

This flappy wing was and still is a joke. I noticed that the DRS activation zones have been put in place for the Chinese Grand Prix. I wonder what will be the DRS activation zones will be at Monaco. Laughable!

This is what Alonso said after Malaysia: "If the system (DRS) had worked, I could comfortably have got past Hamilton on the pit straight and I would not have found myself having to fight him wheel to wheel and taking risks."

But isn't that what we want? Would be interesting to see how this years new tyres would have affected "natural" racing without DRS.

Do the drivers still have a front wing adjust?

No Jon, that's gone