Parc Ferme Moved Forward to the Start of Free Practice 3

Yes. They can still work until pretty late, and start again early ahead of FP3, no problem.

Going all through the night will, of course, violate the curfew, but you can get away with that a few times a year without penalty.

You can no longer change your car after FP3 starts.

As of today, they use FP3 to validate any changes they made after FP2 - ie, overnight Friday. Run it in qualy trim in FP3 (which is only a few hours ahead of qualy of course) and see if it's improved or not. If not, change it back after FP3. If it is better, you can go further down that path ahead of qualy. They'll no longer be able to do that.

No. They're still free to change whatever they want between FP2 and the start of FP3. As I said, basically overnight Fri/Sat. What they won't be able to do is revert back after FP3 if they find they've messed up. Or, go further down the path if they find the tweak works and want to do more of it ahead of qualy.

Regardless, it still makes no ****ing sense to me!.....

Cheers,
Ian

 

I have a proper excuse, I'am afraid that's not good enough, try howling, when people stay away from you, you'll know it's working..

 

They stay away already.

 

LOL...

 

Drivers can take saturday morning off then. Sleep in, jam on the playstation a bit...

What an utterly pointless rule. More idiotic rules that will definitely NOT improve the sport (if not will actually make it worse), more time spend in meeting rooms not talking about how to improve some serious issues.

Simply flush the entire F1 rule book through the toilet and start over. How badly can you rape 1 sport?

 

The only point of such a rule is to reduce costs in general (oh so marginally) and lessen the advantage of the richer teams (but not in any meaningful way).

 

There you go being all logicy.
If they haven't learned that by now...

 

Sort of like Formula Vee but with lots of carbon and hefty aero packages.

Arrive on Thursday, roll it off the trailer, practice, adjust tire pressures, qualify and race, pack up and go home. At the rate F1 is going, the V races would be better, close racing, drafting on the straights, three wide slingshots to the finish line...

 

That's precisely the problem. Which means for the spectators on site half the show from Saturday is gone. Expect less people to show up and less $ for the race organizers.

But what does Bernie care? He already got his payment, whether his cars run or not.

They took away FP on Sunday and reduced the show. Now they cut Saturdays in half.

Seems like Friday becomes the best day to see some cars.

 

Thanks for the update guys.

Just how stupid these rule makers can get

 

Agreed.

Except, & note I'm not trying to defend this BS, I doubt they'll sleep in Sat morning - That's the closest chance they get to run in qualy conditions.

I also fail to see how it saves $ one!... The guys are all there, just that now they'll all stand around with their thumbs up their butts rather than be able to tweak ride height, damper settings or whatever in an effort to improve it based on what they learnt in FP3.

Again, makes zero sense to me, and I haven't seen any of them even try to defend it. I understand parc ferme after qualy, but just don't get how this benefits anyone - From the big guys to the minnows. It's ridiculous!

Cheers,
Ian

 

We should start a poll.
What Madness Will The FIA Mandate Next?

 

next mandate?

anyone who question their decision will be found guilty and jailed 5 years

F1 is dead anyway, the rules is dumb the racing is boring..nobody cared anymore

 

This as a cost cutting rule is as much use as taking a bucket out of the ocean to reduce the water levels.

 

Those rejected F1 rules changes in full « Sniff Petrol


Rejected rules

 

LOL Maldonado to race separately on a Monday when everyone else is safely back home