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Jean Todt to push for 'green' technology in Formul; ... and reduced budgets....
Topic Started: Dec 28 2009, 07:46 PM (226 Views)
Brave_Lee_Flea
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BBc Reports that

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Formula 1 bosses are to investigate ways of promoting the advance of environmentally friendly technology.

The idea is the brainchild of Jean Todt, who succeeded Max Mosley as president of motorsport's governing body the FIA in October.

Ex-Ferrari F1 engine boss Gilles Simon has joined the FIA to lead the project.
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Todt said he regretted the decision by F1 teams to abandon the Kers energy recovery and power boost systems that were used in 2009.

"I am convinced that we absolutely must reflect the environment with new technologies," Todt said.

"We must adapt to our time and review fundamentally motorsport - even create new disciplines.
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Todt added: "The F1 teams are sometimes blind and do not realise what is happening in the world. But the racing has been struck as always by the [financial] crisis.

"F1 is too expensive, and my predecessor Max Mosley made great efforts to reduce costs, but it was not enough, especially as some teams were resistant.


Doesn't seem like too much of a new broom .... in fact there's plenty there to have gotten Max excited - especially the bit about "new discipline".

But seriously, if Jean Todt is basically validating Max's ideas, and it seems like he is, does that add some weight to their validity or was Jean the chosen successor purely on the basis that he would continue the path of "Moselyism"?

A case of "right message, wrong delivery" perhaps? Jean T may yet bring Max's ideas to fruition by not choosing the path of conflict at every opportunity.
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<think> not choosing the path of conflict... good start <thumbsup>
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If they let Kers have unlimited use during a race I am sure the technology would have been in every F1 car.
As it is the boost time and the weight of the system made it expensive for what it did and only Ferrari and Mclaren got any use from it.
That said are the above keeping KERS next year or have all teams dumped it?
So much for cost savings!!
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The ideas Max Mosely expounded were sound, his methodology of implementing them was terribly unsound. Thats what Todt has to change. Theres no need to dump the ideas.

If F1 has to survive, it has to go down this road, but sensibly.

Luca is saying the same thing -

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He added: "There are a lot of answers needed. We need good people at the FIA. [FIA president Jean] Todt is a good person and knows F1, and I’m sure his priority is to recreate a different dialogue and atmosphere. Bernie [Ecclestone] is coming to the end of his career, but I am sure he will look ahead. And FOTA has been very useful. There needs to be a strong triangle between the three parties."

Di Montezemolo thinks that F1 needs to undertake a wholesale rethink about what it is doing, rather than small tinkering of the rules to try and improve the show.

"First we have to decide where we want to position the product," he said. "I think it needs to encompass extreme technology, performance and research. Secondly, we need to save costs without losing the appealing elements. Carbon brakes, for instance, are impossible to use with road cars and we can accept a standard gearbox without losing F1 characteristics.


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F1 needs to assimilate its technology with the one for street cars. That was the main reason for manufacturers to leave F1 during the financial crisis. Why spend millions that can barely be integrated to a certain level to the main core business.

Todt seems to have a different approach to Moseley, so we hope.
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And they are both right.Like it or like it not the sad fact is that F1 is still stuck in the past.
Enviromental pressure on the car industry is growing stronger and and stronger every day, and manufacturers are facing ever stricter emission controls.

Unless F1 ittself addressses this problem, I am very much afraid that the powers that be will address them for it.
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