[simple simon]

Bernie Ecclestone, no doubt at the behest of the new F1 rights ownership, has called together the F1 teams in an attempt to stem the tide of negative publicity surrounding the sport due to “spying”.


The meeting has been attended by all the teams in F1 with the exception of Ferrari, McLaren, and Renault. Bernie is now apparently desperate to put a halt to the bad publicity surrounding all of the spying and possession of intellectual property by competing teams.


Possession of another team’s “intellectual property’ is something that has become prominent only since the sport has reached the billion dollar market value. After all, competitive racing of any kind has always been about finding out why the other guy’s car is faster than your own. And the employee’s who make those cars go faster are constantly on the move from team to team. You want your car to improve next year? Hire the guy who engineered the car that kicked your butt last year. Why? Because he will bring the knowledge with him. Whether in his head or in a brief case, how can you stop the transfer of engineering knowledge from team to team? You can’t.

F1 News: Bernie Intervenes To Save F1

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^ Bad publicity nonsense.
If anything this has made F1 even more "popular".

And to begin with, espionage affaires in Grand Prix racing have been going on for oh... about 100 years or so.

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by simple simon

Bernie Ecclestone, no doubt at the behest of the new F1 rights ownership, has called together the F1 teams in an attempt to stem the tide of negative publicity surrounding the sport due to “spying”.


The meeting has been attended by all the teams in F1 with the exception of Ferrari, McLaren, and Renault. Bernie is now apparently desperate to put a halt to the bad publicity surrounding all of the spying and possession of intellectual property by competing teams.


Possession of another team’s “intellectual property’ is something that has become prominent only since the sport has reached the billion dollar market value. After all, competitive racing of any kind has always been about finding out why the other guy’s car is faster than your own. And the employee’s who make those cars go faster are constantly on the move from team to team. You want your car to improve next year? Hire the guy who engineered the car that kicked your butt last year. Why? Because he will bring the knowledge with him. Whether in his head or in a brief case, how can you stop the transfer of engineering knowledge from team to team? You can’t.

F1 News: Bernie Intervenes To Save F1

OK, who amongst us think the news of that $100 million fine didn't get the attention of legions of folks who have never followed auto sports in their lives?

I see only two solutions to the knowledge of engineering knowledge problem:
(1) An iron-tight non-compete and no communication clause in every contract, or...

(2) Every team having one contracted person whose sole job is to "terminate with extreme prejudice" any person leaving said team who has extensive engineering knowledge of team secrets.

(#2 might be considered kind of radical for some)

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^ Bob, I don't see neither happening.

The driver's strike of 1982 will seem like a piece of cake compared to a possible mechanics, engineers, test-drivers, even-drivers superstrike in case of solution 1 or 2.
Probably a return to a keep-it-quiet/no-dirty-laundry-expossed policy witch worked till now.

[Racer Duck]

I saw something on a blog yesterday that the writer's strike is playing havoc with IRL & F1. seems without clearly written scripts the players don't know what to do, they've got no idea who will win which race and are doing a lot of ad-libbing right now which is gonna pi$$ off a lot of writers who're gonna have to straighten out the mess when they get back to work. the hope is they come to settlement before the 08 season starts.

don't know if it's true, but it sounds good

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^ Bernie's a good script writter, those boys we'll be out of a job if they continue.