NL_Fer wrote:As a regulation.
Honda and Renault can close in, because less power is drawn, they can deploy mgu-k for a longer period. Les harvesting is needed, so wastegate is opened more often, making more noise. They still be hybrids, but the influence of the hybrid part is limited. No major design change is needed.
What an i missing?
Yup, I was recently having a rant on another forum about a stupid article where a 'journalist' asks what would happen if Mercedes were banned for being dominant. Well the short answer is any team spending 300mil with the threat of simply being banned for a year would quit the sport as being banned every couple of years is insane.
What journalists should be talking about but haven't at all is how any equalisation could be done. Problem is with a flat v8 it would be relatively easy to use the ecu to level out power. But with the current engines the entire design complexity and advantage is in the balance between ice/ers. If you reduce mgu-k power then almost all the mgu-h harvesting Merc do is worthless, meaning they'd be carrying extra weight for a turbo/mgu-h system they couldn't use where as an underpowered team who had a lighter/smaller engine to begin with would have a big advantage if everything was limited to that smaller engines power output.
But it should be something fans, journalists, pundits should be discussing sensibly with someone hopefully coming up with a potential way to move towards a more equal playing field. Until they start talking about it and coming up with ideas it won't have a chance of happening.
Personally I don't think limiting mgu-k is the way to go anyway. that would just reduce lap times significantly and frankly they should be pushing harder and closer to the limit. The extra power is making the cars harder to control, just not hard enough, halving the mgu-k power will make wheel spin/traction a smaller issue and though we aren't getting many spins it would reduce them. If anything I'd like to see maybe reduce the amount of mgu-h harvesting to a degree that allows the lesser engines to compete better and if anything increase the amount of power the mgu-k can output, 200bhp or something allow it to be used at higher power but for less of the lap. Put some of it directly in the drivers control as with the previous kers. So drivers have to decide when and where they'll get away with the extra power output, let them save it up for overtake attempts, etc.
