• mjhagen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, people keep forgetting F1 is a team sport and I don’t mean between the drivers, but the entire team. These 10 in a row is because the entire team made 0 fatal mistakes for this long and they did their job in the last few years to get the new regs right.

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        1 year ago

        Not wanting to take too much away from max and red bull but I do wonder how well other teams would be doing it they had also ignored the cost cap.

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          1 year ago

          Strange way of saying “I wonder how well other teams would be doing if they had also nailed the new regulations to perfection”

        • @Tagger Good point. I totally forgot about the cost cap issue. But they only went over by like $2mil - compared to the overall limit of $140mil, that’s a drop in the bucket. What were they even spending that on? Lunches for everyone?

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          Mate, let it go. Ultimately is was 400k I believe?

          The decreased wind tunnel-time and CFD-time do have an impact, so I can’t imagine any advantage from that 400k to still be lasting.

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            1 year ago

            The 400k is a lie. It was over a million. The 400k figure was if they had applied for a tax break they didn’t apply for and had been granted it.

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              1 year ago

              If you are correcting figures one way, you have to correct them both ways. That is how financial auditors always work.

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                  1 year ago

                  I am a financial accountant in a fairly large company. When external auditors look at the figures, they add up everything that they find. It doesn’t matter if the error is increasing or decreasing the profit-figure, they calculate the total of the errors.

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                    Ah, okay, that makes sense I guess. Seems weird from a lay point of view, but if that’s the industry standard.

                    Thanks for explaining.