Sasha wrote:He confirmed what I already stated,that the Honda PU is split-turbo with air-to-air intercooler and I didn't get paid like him for the story.
Because Autosport pays for "media packages" not the bare bones ideas themselves.
I could give you a perfect example.
In early 2012 when the Mclaren Coanda exhaust came out (and I was in prime) people were puzzled as to how it worked. No one confirmed at the time what effects were taking place - was it blowing the diffuser? was it blowing the wing? We had the usual winter testing discussions here on F1-tech. I did a few carefully set up CFD simulations and sure enough the CFD showed us some new things and confirmed a lot of things. I posted my results here on F1-tech in the form of images - what happens to the exhaust stream at differnet speeds. My photobucket crashed. Steven hosted it on some other site. The images were viewed by tens of thousands. It felt like an achievement. All good and great, right?
Nope.. the most shocking thing happened. I found my Images on a sports website with my watermark erased and some body's logo replacing it, posted by a certain journalist therefore implying the images are his original work! And You can bet he was paid a handsome sum for the story, which was built around the images! I felt violated. He gave no credit at all. I wrote to the website claiming that they infringed on my copyright and I got an apology soon after. I don't remember if they took down the images or if they gave me the credits..... Of course I got no money for it if you were wondering.
I don't always agree with Scarb's concepts sometimes, and he may gather concepts from different sources (that is what journalists do) but I know his work to be original. In fact used to read his site before I came here. We obviously know he cannot come up with 100% the things he writes about, but that his job is get the info from different sources to present those ideas to the wider public.
