Here's another interesting take on the debate raging within F1 over technology and its role in the sport:

FIA president Max Mosley has long argued against the use of technology that costs millions to develop without any obvious benefit.

"It may fascinate the relevant engineers that by spending millions of Euros they can build a new gearbox with ratios that are 0.25 mm thinner but no-one else knows or cares," the FIA said when putting forward proposed rule changes for 2008.

"There is no additional value for the watching public who, ultimately, pay for the whole thing.

"If we eliminate pointless (but very expensive) engineering exercises, there will still remain huge areas of technical interest, some of which can be directly relevant to automobile engineering."