Question of rules
Anyone who is passionate about American sports, from NBA basketball to NFL football, knows the term well.tanking'. This is a particular practice, made possible by the absence of relegations, which consists in'intentionally' achieve negative results with the intention of exploiting the championship rules that favor losing teams in subsequent seasons. A similar thing can also happen in Formula 1.
It is no mystery that in the past there are teams that have purposely snubbed a season – or part of it – with the aim of then be more competitive in the following year. In the 2021 season a similar practice was carried out by the team Haaswhich finished the championship in last place and without points, then managed to create a particularly competitive car in the early stages of the 2022 championship.
No 'tanking'
In the last season the American team returned to occupy the last place in the ranking and – with the new technical regulation on power units arriving in 2026 – there are those who have hypothesized a 'disposable' two-year period for the team managed by Gunther Steiner to be able to concentrate better on a optimal approach to the 'new era'. The hypothesis of a 'tanking' in motorsport style was, however, denied by the South Tyrolean manager himself.
“You never want to do something like that – Steiner explained to the American site Racer – you can't even think about it. I can't go out there and say: 'Guys, we have decided that for two years we will finish tenth'. We have already done this in the past, when we were in difficulty during the COVID years. We cannot and do not want to do this because we have a responsibility towards all the people who work here and who work very hard to move forward“.
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