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While I agree with the budget cap in principle - it does seem odd that there are not some allowances for either the cost of rebuilding a knackered car or a relaxation of the engine rule where it's clearly been borked by a crash, rather than general reliability.
How would you invigilate the engineers assessing the damage though?
Power unit been run in qualifying trim a bit too much? Oh, it's been damaged when the car nosed into the barriers, whoops, better fit a new one.
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Yeah, this is the tricky bit - but they have sooooo much data you'd hope those in the know would be able to set a threshold for something like this. Perhaps any impact higher than say 20g is needed before you even start to argue your case. F1 loves precise and random rules so doubt this is beyond them. Hard to game it too much that way - we've seen what happens when you crash on purpose.
Scrabble
Yeah - understand it's all triggered by the budget cap. But at the same time, this was 100% guaranteed to happen. Chassis ending crashes happen, and they may not be your fault. Seems odd that nothing built into the budget cap to account for this?
Moaning about it now makes for a rubbish spectacle. While I agree with the budget cap in principle - it does seem odd that there are not some allowances for either the cost of rebuilding a knackered car or a relaxation of the engine rule where it's clearly been borked by a crash, rather than general reliability.
I'd suggest some sort of ring fenced budget that can only be released on application based on this type of issue. Budget cap = good - but moaning about it in public does nothing for the sport.