More rule tweaks

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Originally Posted by henners88

Thanks :)
I think it'll certainly be interesting when the tyre choice at the front is not necessarily the choice tyre the following day should conditions change etc. Obviously if its raining then that another matter. You could see the likes of Sutil on hard tyres catching a degrading, soft compound Schumacher/Hamilton by lap 10 and mixing things up abit.

I think the teams have opted for such a change because a large chunk of their strategy base has been taken away with the non refueling rule and this is an interesting replacement IMO. Should be a great season non the less.. :)

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Just a thought here. In Melbourne, quite often the temperature can fall 20 degrees from one hot day to a cooler following day. This phenomenon may or may not seriously affect the tyres that the first 10 cars have to use following a hot quals and cooler race day.

But if it affects the same 10 guys on the front 5 rows, then maybe it won't be such a big imposition.

But now it all depends on how different are the tyres... Sometimes we have seen how different compound turn out to be really similar, and all that stuff of "yeah, he´s leading but now has to put the bad set of tyres so he will be caught by the others" tended to be "not-very-true".

In fact, we saw this when someone had real tyre problems, not when someone was forced to use the other compound. What I´m trying to say is that this new rule change won´t add very much. I wouldn´t worry about it.

As I understand it, Q3 will be with race fuel too? It'll be interesting to see how they handle the heavy cars on a qualy lap.

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Originally Posted by Mark

As I understand it, Q3 will be with race fuel too? It'll be interesting to see how they handle the heavy cars on a qualy lap.

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This is very interesting - how will they work out how much fuel the cars should carry for the race before Q3? I think this is a stupid idea.

Eh? ALL qualifying is low fuel. They just have to start the race on the same set of tyres they set their fasted Q3 time on.

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

Eh? ALL qualifying is low fuel. They just have to start the race on the same set of tyres they set their fasted Q3 time on.

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Ah yes, my mistake!

One interesting thing I note is that the front tyres are going to be narrower in 2010.

Sounds very gimmicky but it could be interesting. Out of curiosity I'm in favour of this.

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Originally Posted by Mark

Ah yes, my mistake!

One interesting thing I note is that the front tyres are going to be narrower in 2010.

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Yes, will make cooling requirements easier to accommodate as there will be less turbulance from the smaller surface area of the tyre. But now there are no wheel covers allowed....

Also, with the lager fuel tanks, weight is concentrated more rearwardd on full tanks, but the weight characteristics will move a lot more (and the CofG) as the fuel load comes down. Potentially, the fronts will get more wear from aero load in the latter part of the races.

The narrower fronts could well tip the balance in favour of one driver or another. With a smaller contact patch, drivers who like to stick it in on the nose might suffer - Lewis, MS to name two. Those who favour a natural understeer - Massa, perhaps Alonso and Jenson might find the cars more to their taste without adapting their style.

Just a thought.

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

Also, with the lager fuel tanks.

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Now that IS a good idea!