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7 Mar 2019, 18:24 (Ref:3888954) | #151 | ||
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The Phillip Island trial is an admission the current pit lane procedure "may" (lol) be unsafe. Pit lanes are physically at the limit to accommodate double stacking, yet it is allowed. That's not the drivers fault. When that limit is breached, it's in the wall, into another car or, into the pit crew. I firmly believe the only reason no crew was injured during the incident is because it was Red Bull - guys were watching each other's backs, all very aware of what was transpiring, even moving to avoid problems. Unfortunately I don't have such faith in crews further down the lane... |
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7 Mar 2019, 22:20 (Ref:3889010) | #152 | |
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They should let each car have it's own boom like always used to be the case, then there is no need to double stack. End of problem.
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7 Mar 2019, 22:52 (Ref:3889020) | #153 | |
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At most tracks, there is simply no room, and it'll only make the crowding worse, as well as jack up the running costs for the teams.
If the rules are followed, there is generally no issue. |
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7 Mar 2019, 22:56 (Ref:3889022) | #154 | ||
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Where they're at with it now, is probably the best it'll get. |
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Costs? Reduce the number of crew who can service a car at once. Allow for only one air gun per side. When the sport was run out of backyards and side alley workshops with cars towed to the track on flat bed trucks all teams could furnish a pit crew. Today with international multi-million dollar teams teams the sport somehow can't cater for 24 cars to make a pitstop and be serviced by their own crew. I guess that is progress. |
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8 Mar 2019, 02:58 (Ref:3889045) | #157 | ||
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If you look at the line up when they are all at 45 degrees before the pit lane opens each session it is extremely obvious they cannot fit all 24 cars on their own boom.
Then again I can never understand why there are no penalties during practice/qualifying when crews push cars back and block the lane so no one passes their car. The ultimate unsafe release as there is usually a crew member pulling the car back. |
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8 Mar 2019, 03:00 (Ref:3889047) | #158 | |
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Extra pit booms, fuel rigs, nitrogen bottles, rattle guns and the people to operate and maintain them costs money.
As for progress, they're professional teams not backyard operations. |
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8 Mar 2019, 03:40 (Ref:3889053) | #160 | |
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The rules are fine, provided the teams don't mess up their strategy or are careless.
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The end result is an experiment at Phillip Island that keen observers of the sport know will result in Supercar Lottery brought to you by Mr Schenken and CAMS Race Control. Meanwhile other safety concerns such as allowing drivers to drive at full speed under Safety Car conditions rarely rate a mention. |
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8 Mar 2019, 06:04 (Ref:3889059) | #162 | |
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I'm still waiting for the list of tracks that don't have enough room? It is ridiculous that at Bathurst with acres of space it's only one car per boom.
Claiming it would cost too much or not enough room, when plenty of other series around the world run endurance races with double the amount of cars in pit lanes no better or worse than any used in Supercars, is just making excuses to keep the norm. Double Stacking has always been a stupid look. F1 has this rule, but a pitstop in F1 lasts 3 seconds so the following car is not hurt by much, and in F1 safety cars are a rarity and generally not taken into account with strategy, in Supercars a pitstop can last 30 seconds, severely screwing the team car that was close behind and safety cars are so common in the series that it is built into strategy. Outside of F1, what other series out there don't allow cars from the same team to be serviced at the same time? |
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Stopping pitting under safety cars is one option, but then we will end up with people doing a ZILLION miles an hour to get INTO the pits before the SC is out, and that means people will potentially be in danger, or will get pinged for going to fast past yellows. I reckon if you ban double stacking, and the teams can sort out who stops when, and make the penalty a drive-through so there's no incentive to do it and take the penalty anyway. |
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I think this is the best option.
As soon as the SC board comes out the pits are closed. Anyone who goes into the pits or was in the pits at the time has to wait until the safety car train has gone past before they can rejoin. Add to that only one team (shared boom) car is allowed in pit lane at a time. I don't think cars would race back to the pits if they knew they would get stuck in there. |
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Closing the pits during safety car causes more problems than it solves but in a different area.
What you end up with is a situation where races are decided by blind luck or - even worse - the potential for misfortune or driver error actually becomes advantageous. |
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10 Mar 2019, 23:51 (Ref:3889562) | #166 | ||
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Interesting interview with Rick on RPM, exposed a few flaws in the current rules, including how things have evolved due to (my opinion) poor enforcement of and subsequently respect for the rules and safety.
This event saw some pretty amazing actions, eg cars almost literally pushing crew members out of the way to squeeze through a gap. |
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All that needs to happen is that anyone in the lane can rejoin, using the existing rules for rejoins during an sc period |
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11 Mar 2019, 01:00 (Ref:3889568) | #168 | |
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I say leave it as is, and rule with an iron fist.
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11 Mar 2019, 04:31 (Ref:3889577) | #170 | |
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If I recall correctly. In the early 00's pitlane was closed under safety car in some rounds. Didn't 90% of the field pit on lap 2, with a few back markers trying their luck staying out? Didn't solve pitlane congestion, which seems to be the issue here.
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Not banning double-stacking doesn't solve the problem, but perhaps not stopping under SC makes it less likely. |
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Here it is: https://youtu.be/-qvgbml5npk?t=114 Pitstops for everybody! |
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