Proof. Wipe your tears.

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news...317094410.shtml


[QUOTE]Renault and Ferrari have made clear their concerns about rear diffusers, but McLaren has not followed suit in the same fashion.

It is believed that the respective diffuser designs on the Brawn, Toyota and Williams cars are controversial according to the so-called

 

http://www.bild.de/BILD/sport/motorsport/2...1-einstein.html

 

I love how people use this "spirit" of the rules excuse (and trust me, I'll be the last one to jump on this Brawn bandwagon if at all.)

Simply looking at this from an engineering exercise. It's their job to exploit it to the fullest (sometimes going overboard). The crew chiefs in NASCAR knows this, and I"m sure as does all the technical officers in F1 and other forms of racing.

There's no spirit of the rules; it's black and white. If it's within the rules, it's legal. If a few selected individuals figured it out, good on them. Those guys deserve to go faster.

 

spirit; noun an interpretation of the rules:
example usage: "our interpretation of the rules didn't figure out this way to do it, so they must be violating the spirit of the rules"

 

Isn't this what auto racing has always been about? Oh, and blatant cheating too...

 

Blatant cheating is left for McLaren.

 

Too bad it won't really help the Brawn GP cars when the season ends.

 

fixed