[rollei_list] Re: OT - "Hybrid ... was banned for performance reasons"

On Saturday, January 29, 2005, at 01:34  AM, Frank Dernie wrote:

> Hybrid (as like Prius) was banned for performance reasons. The 
> regenerative and assistance in acceleration modes would have made the 
> cars much faster and nobody (on the political side) wanted that. I 
> personally very much regret this, but then I have regretted almost 
> every non-safety related rule change since the politically motivated 
> fiddlers took over from the engineers and ruined the racing.

F1 has become so rotten, engineering-wise, that I don't watch it any 
more. And after Senna's unfortunate and untimely death, it isn't even 
fun to watch driving-wise.


Ardeshir <http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir/AllMyFiles.html>

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