Teams preventing SC rule change

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Originally Posted by Bagwan

Having the limiter engaged while on track might make it a little hard to keep those tires warm enough for a restart .
50mph might not be fast enough , and it might end in the cars getting strung out , having slowed enough below the limiter speed to get some wheelspin , and brake warming .

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Think the old grey matter has lost it's temperature Baggy.....

The whole point behind the limiter thing is to take away the ability of the drivers to peg it back to the pits, right?

So, once the danger is clear, the limiter can be removed, and the cars follow the SC as now, warming up their tyres and brakes as normal.

Is that too much logic?

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Originally Posted by Bagwan

Having the limiter engaged while on track might make it a little hard to keep those tires warm enough for a restart .
50mph might not be fast enough , and it might end in the cars getting strung out , having slowed enough below the limiter speed to get some wheelspin , and brake warming .

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As SGW says or failing that, keep them in formation until ready to restart and let them go.

After all, aren't we talking about banning tyre warmers?

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

Think the old grey matter has lost it's temperature Baggy.....

The whole point behind the limiter thing is to take away the ability of the drivers to peg it back to the pits, right?

So, once the danger is clear, the limiter can be removed, and the cars follow the SC as now, warming up their tyres and brakes as normal.

Is that too much logic?

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Well , ok , if you want to tweak the idea in that direction , it'll be ok , then .
That changes it from a "grey matter" to a little more black and white , Stu .

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Originally Posted by Bagwan

Well , ok , if you want to tweak the idea in that direction , it'll be ok , then .
That changes it from a "grey matter" to a little more black and white , Stu .

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Originally Posted by Knock-on

As SGW says or failing that, keep them in formation until ready to restart and let them go.

After all, aren't we talking about banning tyre warmers?

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Also a good point , Mr. On .

My first comment was a bit too much on the devil's advocate side .

I'd actually like to see then held back by a mid-seventies Cortina , as safety car , going speeds we go on the road .
The majority of crashes could be cleaned up in one lap under the safety Cortina .

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Originally Posted by Bagwan

Also a good point , Mr. On .

My first comment was a bit too much on the devil's advocate side .

I'd actually like to see then held back by a mid-seventies Cortina , as safety car , going speeds we go on the road .
The majority of crashes could be cleaned up in one lap under the safety Cortina .

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Lets settle for the Lotus Cortina, bring back a famous Marque to the F1 world?

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

Lets settle for the Lotus Cortina, bring back a famous Marque to the F1 world?

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Ford not a famous enough marque for ya ?

Besides , the Lotus would be too fast , wouldn't it ?

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

Lets settle for the Lotus Cortina, bring back a famous Marque to the F1 world?

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I would only like that idea if Gerry Marshall was still with us. That might have "sped" up the process a little bit more. Plus could have been the most exciting safety car to watch ever. :D

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Originally Posted by Bagwan

Ford not a famous enough marque for ya ?

Besides , the Lotus would be too fast , wouldn't it ?

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Yes, but not really a constructor in their own right for more than five minutes, were they? Well, they sort of were, but only because of, oh, what do you call that chap that run the team with Ford money in 1997?

Made not bad engines though, the Double Four Valve might have won the odd race here and there if I recall.... ;)

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Originally Posted by aryan

I say the rules are fine, though the more I think of that reserved fuel tank, the more I like the idea. It's gonna be a b!tch to regulate though.

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I don't think the reserve tank would be that hard to regulate. As I suggested in previous threads, a pigment could be added to the fuel so the the FIA could determine if the reserve fuel was used, along with a program in the ECU that could log when the reserve tank is used. (The coloured fuel would ensure that teams can't by-pass the ecu and run the reserve tank empty and only refill it during the final pit-stop aka running lighter then everyone else... ) The ECU can log weight of the reserve tank as well as when its activated and refilled...