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Originally Posted by NewsStalker

Well correct - and incorrect.

Part of the rule says they can do this - another part then states the rule is ONLY applicable to the car arriving at the TEST track - so, if you read the rule in its entirety (which should be done anyway as part 2 adds to part 1) then the rule has been broken (none of the tracks outside Australia are, AFAIK, designated as Test Tracks - therefore - rule broken.

Ethically however - should someone in the media who is hired, by a team, to drive for them in the enduros, then be permitted to conduct ANY type of on track driving of their cars before official testing? Regardless of whether you (the Royal You btw) believe they got any advantage out of the drive, the fact is they ARE in the car, they ARE setting up their own driving positions (seats, harnesses, radios etc) and checking everything out on a race track - something no other co-driver can do until either an official test day or first practice for the actual enduro.

Advantage to Skaife? maybe 3 or 4 laps of settling in.

But - ethically - definately a no-goer and shouldn't have been allowed. Crompton or Larkham should have been the ONLY drivers permitted to 'media drive' the T8 car.

The wording can be taken either way. It just says 'test track', nothing about a VESA approved test track. The exemption is clearly 'show laps at each circuit' so that has to be done at each place we go.....