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Thursday, 30 April 2009
FIA Budget Cap for 2010 - Brawn GPSo the FIA have decided that the cap is to be set at £40 million for 2010.Lots of rules to consider, most notable among these is that engine costs will not be included in the budget capped expenditure for 2010.Also excluded from the budget cap are marketing and hospitality, driver pay, fines and penalties imposed by the FIA, anything that teams can demonstrate has no influence on its on-track performance and dividends paid from profits relating to participation in the championship. The FIA will allow those teams that sign up to the budget cap to have increased technical freedom to make it easier to compete with the uncapped teams. This includes adjustable front and rear wings as well as an engine that can run without a rev limit. In addition, the budget cap teams will be allowed unlimited testing outside of the racing season, and will not be restricted by the wind tunnel scale and speed stipulations.The FIA have also announced that the ban on in race refuelling will come into force fo 2010 and the maximum number of cars allowed on grid is increased to 26 from 24 paving the way for 3 new teams.All very interesting as this will force even the likes of Ferrari and McLaren to think about the cap
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ross brawn Brawn GP - UpdatesNot only will BGP make updates to the BGP001 in Barcelona a few updates will occur around the site in and around now and Barcelona with updates to the driver profiles and a weekly podcast will be coming to the site.Race fans will all know that the return to Europe normally brings changes to the cars and this can impact the championship. This year will see the biggest change around ever in my opinion with all the teams amassing a raft of aero changes to the car. For Brawn GP this is the ideal opportunity to fully integrate the Mercedes powerplant. Leading upto the start of the season the Mercedes engine was drafted in as a quick replacement for the Honda engine that the team couldn't use. This lead to some packaging compromises to integrate the engine quickly with as least initial cost to keep the team racing. The only real showing of this from our perspective as fans is that the gearbox integration solution lead to Rubens having to have a gearbox changed (The Mercedes engine does not lubricate the gearbox like the Honda engine did and has a separate system) and also suspension travel was compromised at the last few races causing issues not only to the engine/drivetrain but to the overall aero setup.Looking at advancements for Barcelona and the biggest advantage being bought forward will be the repackaging of the engine/drivetrain as this will increase balance/weight distribution Ross commented on the BBC forum programme post Sakhir that there will be a weight reduction because of this too which will help the drivers to place more ballast in the places they need it. Aero wise it's been remarked that BGP have a trick up their sleeves that no-one else will be able to follow so it must be an inherent design component of the setup they already run thats been redeveloped. I also expect some revisions to the front and rear wings and talks of revisions to the sidepods has already been mentioned by Ross. Expect an asymmetrical design to feature just as McLaren used last season as the Mercedes engine is much better at cooling than it's Honda counterpart. I will update the BGP001 analysis after the Barcelona outing to show the difference (where I can) to the first iteration of the car.
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