Quote Originally Posted by TypeR View Post
Reading like a politician's brochure that all these tens and tens of people are realy needed and can't do anythimg without them..
Take a respected 3D/CAD whatever moduling program, make the detail right and let it run through the ,,wind tunnel'' for a period of time and let's go for testing in the woods..

,,junior engineer'' to drill correct holes for the wing or whatever..

What would you as a top engineer suggest gor the future of WRC top class?
Asking for real..
The last time I had an Autodesk Inventor 3D modelling licence, about 5 years ago, it cost my employer £10000 per annum for that licence and that would only do 3D modelling & assembly with basic stress analysis not CFD. If it was as simple as you seem to think all the F1 cars would be within 1/10ths of a second of each other not wondering how Red Bull is so fast. From the cost of testing that my employer did in independant specialist test laboratories I doubt you'd get half a day in a wind tunnel for £10000 not counting the cost of the model and the expenses of the staff you'd need to send to observe the tests..

Don't forget we got here because that's what the manfacturers wanted. Despite the cost of each Rally1 car it's still cheaper than trying to produce lots of the "homologation special" models that were needed for GpA in the past. Until the maufacturers decide what they want for the next round of homologation we're merely speculating. I also think that unless any "cost-cap" rules are very carefully written they could strongly discourage any new entries into the championship as the ammount that a new entry would need to spend to catch up with the established teams knowledge could use up a lot of their spending allowance before they'd got anything remotely competitive.

Look at MSport's budget and see what it costs to do it on a shoestring and barely keep up with the rest.