Dat komt omdat de teams zelf de regels maken (lunatics running the asylum). In dit geval hebben Mercedes en Renault erop gegokt dat ze de beste zouden zijn. Mercedes heeft er een godsvermogen in gestoken om zeker te weten dat die gok bewaarheid werd. Iedereen wist dat door de vele regeltjes omtrent het ontwerp van de motor en het tokensysteem een winnend ontwerp ook wel een tijdje winnend zou blijven. Door de vele systemen is het voor een derde partij nauwelijks rendabel om nog in deze rat race te springen. Honda zegt te weten waar het aan ligt en qua ICE gaan ze ook best goed. Dus wellicht volgend jaar ook beter dan de Renault.
Renault heeft nauwelijks extra R&D aangetrokken of geld geïnvesteerd. Je ziet ook rondom de soap van Lotus dat Renault eigenlijk voor nop probeert mee te doen.
Deze post vat het wel uitstekend samen:
You can rest assure that RedBull had been promised a competitive engine from Renault (who wanted these engine regulations), it´s just that they didn´t get one.
One could perhaps say that it was foolish of Red Bull to trust that they would (get a competitive engine). But probably due to the fact that they of course did a "due diligence", or in other words looked at past years Renault engines performances and requirements. And prolly thought that although they might not get the absolutely most powerful engine in 2014, they would at least get a pretty good one, as the Renault V8 became once it had gotten it´s performance/equalization update.
It still wasn´t the most powerful engine of the field but its cooling requirements was good (the reason they wanted it instead of the Ferrari), it had good driveabillity, and pretty low fuel consumption too. The engine used "cold blowing" of the defuser. And even if many of the "magic" mapping settings was made by Redbull, Renault made them work. Which meant that although it wasn´t the most powerful engine, it was good enough for Red Bull to be able to make up for that deficit and win 4 straight WDC with it.
So I´m pretty sure that they assumed that they would get a competitive engine, perhaps not the most powerful one, but surely one good enough to stay competitive but.. :well:
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Anyways, we all know that neither Renault or Red Bull are not happy about that situation. Red Bull could sort of take it for a year, but come 2015 their patience run out. And the further the season went without no real progress in sight, Red Bulls anger and public critic escalated. And as it did Renault felt hard done by and replied. But not by sorting out their engine, which would have stopped the critic at once, but by publicly criticize Red Bull for their chassi (which had some problems) and calling Newey a liar.
But the problem here wasn´t just about the engines poor performance anymore, it was about pride now too. No-one likes to get criticized and especially when you know that you´ve screwed up and can´t really defend your (lack of) actions. And it´s here that pride comes in and when you feel stung you start to defend yourself anyways, as Renault has done by saying that they´ve been treated badly by Red Bull, "dragged in the mud" and so on.
But as Marsellus Wallace said: "F*ck pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps", and it certainly hasn´t in this case as that only raised Red Bulls anger.
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It doesn´t matter if they got some people feeling sorry for them (for some odd reason), venting their vitriol over Red Bull at here, or that I for instance gives my point of view on the matter here too. What matters now is that both parties needs to get together, swallow their pride and start to try to find a way to solve this whole situation as it would be a real shame if we lose two really good F1 teams and perhaps an engine manufacturer too, all due to lack of commitment on Renault`s part and pride on both sides.
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I do understand Renault´s point of view, they have done a pretty good job in the past and although they´ve screwed up badly the past 1.5 years, they don´t want to get criticized publicly for it. But you can´t live on old merits so I understands why Red Bull, who expected to get at least a somewhat better engine this year feels that they have been really badly let down by Renault.
And as they didn´t respond to the internal critic or wanted any help other than more money from Red Bull, Red Bull prolly went public in an effort to put some fire under their asses, hoping that that would get them into fighting mode and invest a lot more commitment and resources into their engine project.
But instead, we got this war of words between them until Red Bull had enough and said that they wanted to end the contract, which was a very naive thing to do without a new engine supplier signed, (to say the least). But what´s done is done and it´s time for both of them to pick up the pieces and try to find a solution that works for the both of them.
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I don´t think that Red Bull has behaved them self exemplary since they became a top team and got involved in the Strategy Group and so on btw. They were very fast to acclimatize to being a part of the Piranha Club, looking almost only after their own interest instead of the sport just as the other top teams have done for ages, but I still want them racing competitively next year, taking the fight to Mercedes and Ferrari.
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