dave kumar wrote: ↑16 Dec 2020, 17:08
I agree, the appeal of the formula is that the same rules apply to everyone and then you try and build the fastest car to those rules. If we take away that and give a boost (say in max fuel flow) to some teams to try and level the playing field, we lose this essential part of F1's appeal.
Power unit performance is not a team performance issue though, it's a
power unit supplier performance issue.
One notes that Red Bull would advocate differently if they were supplied customer Mercedes High Performance Powertrain power units, but Mercedes High Performance Powertrain have continually failed to move towards agreeing a deal with Red Bull Racing even despite Aston Martin sponsorship where Aston Martin road cars use Mercedes power units... (Meanwhile Mercedes HPP now have no issue supplying the works Aston Martin team, so the whole thing is rather bizarre.)
In that scenario, Mercedes HPP developments would
benefit Red Bull Racing and Mercedes GP Petronas equally, and Red Bull would have no reason to advocate for a power unit freeze or performance convergence.