Recent content by cjo

Did you read the stewards decision? The reasoning behind it being 400,000 EUR and then 7.5 points per car for the whole season is what they felt was enough to counter any advantage they gained by not designing the BD themselves. The point I was making is that they didn't decide "The penalty is...

As long as the information only relates to Merc's 2019 BD, the information transfer doesn't need to stop. RP would probably have signed a contract that said they're allowed any brake duct designs Merc used during 2019. I saw an interview with Toto that said something along the lines that the...

The quote in the twitter post isn't quite accurate. The brakes only *arrived* at RP on or around Jan 6th 2020. Also, the stewards determined that what was sent was effectively information that they had already through the (legitimately obtained) CAD designs. The CAD designs were obtained as...

It's unclear what Hamilton could have done to avoid hitting Albon. At the point he entered the corner, he was ahead, and he didn't open the steering at all before the collision with Albon. It's also common for people going round the outside of that corner to end up well on to the kerb, so there...

China started with (probably) 1 person getting the disease from an animal (i.e. they actually started with 1 case). Italy will have had it introduced multiple times in different locations.

The number is an average. Some people will infect more, some less. The fact that some people have more interactions than others is baked in to the numbers already.

The data seems to suggest each person infects 2-2.5 other people. For flu, that number is closer to 1.4.

Not sure this is going to be the end of it. I don't think the teams will be happy with a situation where you can have something on the car that allows you to break the rules as long as no-one can prove it is being used.

I'm not sure they ever really believed they could fully contain it, but delaying the peak so it isn't during flu season is considered beneficial. Also, you can quote multiple posts in one reply. Use the "+Quote" button next to the posts you want to quote.

You haven't made a suggestion about what the FIA could possibly not want to be public about the way Ferrari did things. That's the part that makes your theory hard to believe, because I can't think of anything. A more likely scenario is that Ferrari broke the rules but the FIA screwed up with...

They're cars, I'm not sure why the FIA would care about any of the tech being made public. What's the scenario where the FIA would want to ban the tech, but not have it banned in the rules? What sort of loophole do you have in mind? The choice of the word "settlement" is interesting, because in...

If Ferrari weren't breaking the rules, why the need for a settlement? Loopholes are either allowed (although perhaps banned the next season with a rule change because the FIA don't like the direction it's going, like Mercedes toe system), or they're closed with a technical directive. Anything...

If there's a loophole that the FIA don't want, they either issue a technical directive, or change the rules.

The hospitalisation rate is a big concern, and for that reason the fatality may end up *higher* because there aren't enough beds to provide the care that people need to get through the worst of it. Most strains of flu don't have a 1+% fatality rate. The current flu plans expect somewhere closer...

Doesn't the requirement that it be a monotonic function of steering wheel position mean that you can't have it toe in while in the centre and toe out if you steer to the left or right?