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Originally Posted by Slap Dash
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A lot of this has already been debunked on other forums and in the media.
All teams use a common
ECU, and RBR's has been checked numerous times after complaints from other teams, and nothing has been found.
Even Alonso came out and said that the RBR has sounded like that all season.
One thing that has been suggested and is the possible reason for the sound, is that RBR have found a way to cut power to some the cylinders while coming out of the corners...
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What Renault was given, back in 2011 was a dispensation from F1 technical director Charlie Whiting to be able to cut cylinders, up to four at the time. Renault claimed it needed to do this for reliability and that is likely what you are hearing in the clip: an engine map which makes use of that ability. You can argue cutting cylinders mid-corner and then bringing them back gradually is a form of traction control, but as long as there is no connection between actual wheelspin and engine modulation, it's not illegal.
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Here is a better article that explains how they can be doing it, legally:
Red Bull May Have Invented A Secret New Hybrid Technology
The other thing people are going on about is "Why isn't the same thing happening with Mark's car, its an RBR conspiracy I tell you, wah wah wah"
Two reasons:
1. He is leaving at the end of the season, and I am sure that if they have "discovered" a new way of legal traction control, they sure as hell won't be sharing any information with the disgruntled employee who is leaving within the next two months.
2. Money. The FIA recently changed how the entry fee for teams works. The more points you gain, and the more points you win by, means you have to pay more to enter the following year, so winning by an insane points margin when the Constructors Championship is already in the bag, will only cost the team more money
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Even more importantly, once the championship is clinched, then Red Bull ought to strive to score as few points as possible. The reason why is because FIA’s recently implemented entry fee changes make dominant success a particularly expensive endeavor. According to the new rules, the first-place team must pay a $500,000 base fee plus $6,000 per championship point. In other words, the more demonstrative the success, the more it will cost the team.
To put the new fees into context, consider the last two F1 seasons. In 2012, Red Bull won with 460 points and a 60-point lead on Ferrari. Had the current entry fee system been in place then, the finish would have cost Red Bull $3.3 million with some $350,000 in extra spending for its points cushion. In 2011, however, the team won with 650 points and a massive 153-point lead. That means the season would have cost Red Bull $4.4 million with nearly $1 million coming just from the huge lead over second-place McLaren.
F1 is already among the most expensive sports in the world, so the last thing Red Bull – which also owns a second F1 team – should do is spend big just for winning by more than it needed to. With a fourth straight title all but assured at this point, it simply makes no sense to give Webber the (again, rumored) traction control technology, even if it might be the most revolutionary development in the sport’s recent history.
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