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Originally Posted by Ospi
They already cap costs with limiting testing days and they could allow a set number of testing only tyres (maybe 2 to 3 sets) which in the grand scheme of things would be pennies. Regulations which place teams in a position where they're running rubber which isn't only quite old but also a different spec to what they'll be using makes little sense, is frustrating for teams and adds nothing to the spectacle.
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Each car is permitted a tyre bank of 20 sets, which can be swapped between cars on a team for testing. The bank is a rolling total, as newer tyres go into the bank, older ones get removed.
If teams choose to keep and test with supposedly 2 year old, knackered tyres they are doing so out of choice, rather than being "made" to do so.
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Originally Posted by one five five
With the current rules, they do effectively make teams run old tyres.
Was the reason for the test mainly so the Supercars family can have a family catchup and pat eachother on the back before the season starts?
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As mentioned above, I don't believe that that the rules effectively make teams run on very old tyres for testing. They certainly can only use tyres from their bank however and most of those will have been run already.
A lot of the reason for the test is to get media footage, images etc to be used through the season along with the launch event for media.