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[GTRMagic]

Interesting to see that V8SC has rewritten the rulebook (again) to make the handling of penalties less prescriptive, to allow more leeway for the DSO to make his own judgement on incidents as they may occur

Story Here

Perhaps not surprisingly, Mr Jones Here and Mr Dane Here fully support the new system...

The funny thing is, the prose in each of the teamowners' stories talks to consistency of penalty, yet allowing the penalty to be at the discretion of the DSO actually likely has the potental to make the outcomes even more ambiguous (i.e. polarising, and wrong/right depending where you sit) than ever before.

The new 2014 penalty list is Here for your reference

You might have thought this stuff should be VERY straightforward and simple. But it hasnt played out that way so far. Rules on the run suck.. and confuse the teams, confuse the fans, makes a messy pot of stew

So... why cant the powers that be, with the input of their teams, list every rule failure that is possible, how it shall be detected, whether it is to be reviewed during or after the race, the punishment to be inflicted for each of these.

Clarify the wording in the main operations manuals to clearly state that a car controller CANNOT touch a car at any time (unless it runs him over, which might inspire another, pit lane foul penalty) so as not to make that event interpretational.

Write the rules tightly. Enforce them consistently.

They should be invisible, if X happens, Y is the result.. and the #7-ites dont need to be judge and jury as to whether an event was a foul or not.

Or is that too simple?