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F1 Refuelling to be banned from 2010

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  • #52
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    Donnelly117 wrote: »
    economical driving in F1. now ive seen it all
    amacachi wrote: »
    How old are you? Plenty of drivers ran out of fuel in the 80s due to non-economical driving.
    Exactly. Even more recently there's the iconic F1 clip from '91 British GP where Mansell stopped during his lap of honour to give Senna a lift (skip to 1:30) after he had run out of fuel on the last lap.

    EDIT: It's funny how things changed. Imagine the fallout if a driver did that in this years championship!


  • #53
    EvilMonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,823 ✭✭✭EvilMonkey


    Slutmonkey57b wrote: »
    I think race-length tyres is never going to do what people seem to think. It's certainly not going to make for more competitive racing - the cars just don't work that way. F1 is a series that exists solely to push the envelope - in lower series the pressure simply isn't there to lose 10 grams of weight here, or 1 thousandth of a second there, or 50grams of downforce there. In something like touring cars, changes in tyre wear, or damage to body panels isn't a race-ending problem. In F1, the tiniest deviation from perfect means your car, and your race, is over.
    They wont be race length tires will they, did the change the two compound tyre rule as well? They tried 1 set of tyres per race tyres in 05 it was a disaster.

    I think this is where the driver comes in, an F1 driver should be able to adjust his driving style to accommodate the changing conditions of the car. Obviously it will depend on the damage to the car/tyres as to how well this works out. Doing an out lap with cold tyres will require a different driving style to when the tyres are at operating temperature and its up to the skill of the driver to use the feedback they get from the car so they know how hard to push or what is required to get the best lap times they can with the car they have under them. I think their is a slightly bigger margin for error than you are making out.


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