In a billion-dollar sport like this one, it shouldn’t be uncommon to fish out injustice or silent cheating occasionally. A sport that features razor-thin margins and deep technical machinery naturally fosters a playground for clever interpretations of the rulebook. Increased rules, increased opportunities to cheat, and potential for loopholes.
The constant evolution of regulations and loopholes ans that what’s legal today might be banned tomorrow. But of course, so team must have already reaped the benefits of it silently, winning a race or two with it. Taking a look back at every campaign, sotis it’s safe to say subtle cheating is part of the frawork. So, behind the glamour of every car—yes, every one—teams push the limits of legality, hoping their simple tweaks go unnoticed.
Don’t think the manufacturers aren’t part of this. A war of its own kind is raging at that primary level, a war Luca seems to be crawling into the crossfire of. From ti to ti, manufacturers do intercede, and sotis not so subtly. They often aid their custor teams with experintal parts, data access, or political shielding.
Take Trampos Racing, for example. By all accounts, Ferrari was backing their little rear wing enhancent in the Canadian Grand Prix. Logically speaking, Ferrari wouldn’t benefit anything substantial from this little act, but the reason lies in the insurance between both parties. Supporting a satellite team is just like telling them: "We’ve got your back." And since Trampos were the major championship contenders honing their tech, Ferrari would like to assist them to their best capability so the championship could switch sides by the end of the season.
The new rear wing flex more than the standard 5mm for standard cars. Supercars do flex more than 5mm, but regulations allow as such since they are supercars. As a standard chassis, the Z24 shouldn’t create less drag on straight-line speed—as it’s supposed to be. Trampos aid to support Luca’s rise back to the top 3 with more fruitful overtakes as quickly as possible.
Luca didn’t need to be inford about this, because it didn’t matter. Even his system couldn’t notify him of sothing as minuscule as that, especially since it caused good, not harm, to the car and his driving.
Although Luca was included in a lot of important talks that held magnitude, the team excluded him from these kinds, maybe because they sensed he held a strong philosophy of fairness and would reprimand cheating and injustice.
[Retrieving pitstop info...]
[Service Ti: 2.00 seconds]
[Front Tires: Soft → Soft]
[Rear Tires: Soft → Soft]
[Rear Wing: Replaced]
The pitstop was smooth and efficient, and it didn’t raise any suspicion from Luca at first. But later, he noticed sothing different. The Ferrari beca lighter and sleeker in drag, and over ti, he gained two Yaw Flex points. To get two points like that consecutively within 10 laps was quite rare at this stage, so it confird his growing suspicion about the new rear wing.
[Yaw Flex 1]
[Yaw Flex 1]
[Aerodynamics 1]
[SYNC BAR: [][][][] 37.5%]
But Luca’s suspicion wasn’t the truth. Funny, he thought the changed wing had had so minor disfigurent, and he’d simply been driving beneath full potential before the pitstop. Unaware this was a quiet upgrade, Luca dismissed it and never thought deeper about it.
P5– Luca Rennick ↑
P6– Elias Nyström ↓
P7– Hank Rice ↓
"...another great gamble from Trampos Racing! Early stop equals early rise! It has paid off for the Rising Suns here in Canada just as it had in the British Grand Prix. Timing the undercut perfectly, they brought Luca in for service earlier than expected, allowing him to make use of the clean air and a refreshed car to push through the net gaps...!"
"...Nordvind Racing tries their very best to mitigate, but Rennick leapfrogs both Nystrom and Rice, reclaiming a solid position in the top five. Now sitting in P5, the team couldn’t have asked for a better lineup. We’re seeing exactly the kind of top-five mix here worthy of fireworks..!"
[Analyzing Ferrari (Scuderia Z24) and host’s distance from 4th Position]
[You are 2 seconds away, host.]
It didn’t take long before Luca and the Squadra Corse driver ahead, Marko Ignatova, locked horns as the Canadian Grand Prix started to grow late, ti ticking past 40 solid laps into the fifthieth.
[Slipstream Status: ENGAGING]
Car
Reviews
All reviews (0)