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Old 14 Nov 2016, 22:52 (Ref:3688098)   #5
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Originally Posted by chillibowl View Post
In wet races there is a benefit for early morning warm-ups but for the dry races...allowing the top cars more opportunities to optimize their set ups could just lend itself to a more follow the leader type parade.

If the price of greater uncertainty is an occasional half hour of red flag or starts under SC then I would say on aggregate the racing is better without the early morning warm up.
Depends on where they qualified. Warm up often showed some car/drivers were lot more comfortable on full tanks than not.
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