Chandhok dropped from German GP

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And the new teams will probably close their gap to the rest of the grid come next year, with some good testing mileage under their belts, so the 107% rule may end up being completely useless.
 
Ardius
I think it may as well be there, there is no harm. New teams could come in future and potentially be dangerously slow. 107% is not hard to stay within, so if anyone falls outside of it, I think its fair to disqualify them. But, so far we haven't really had many drivers outside of it on genuine pace.
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And if you are going to get people who fall outside 107%, it's probably going to be cases like Takuma Sato at Albert Park in 2002, when couldn't set a lap time early in qualifying, and by the time he took to the circuit, it was raining heavily.
 
That's another problem with the 107% rule. Let's say Vettel comes out early in Q1 and sets a fast lap time on a dry track, and then rain begins pouring, and Alonso comes out to do some laps, but it's very wet and he's outside the 107%. Would he get disqualified in that situation?
 
Peter
That's another problem with the 107% rule. Let's say Vettel comes out early in Q1 and sets a fast lap time on a dry track, and then rain begins pouring, and Alonso comes out to do some laps, but it's very wet and he's outside the 107%. Would he get disqualified in that situation?
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If that were the case, they would look at Alonso's relative pace during a dry practice session (probably the session before Quali) and then consider if him being outside of 107% wasn't based on pace or not. At least, thats what I remember from the news releases when the news of the 107% rule coming back.
 
It is indeed a pity that Karun apparently lost his F1 drive to better paying drivers, he is a likeable person and regardless of how we evaluate his skill, it is surely better than Yamamoto's.

Anyway, I was directed to this TRULY AMAZING article by a thread in the autosport forums and decided to share it here, for all of you that don't usually visit there. It is a long read, but I couldn't stop reading until it ended.

http://www.overdrive.in/story-articles-articles/life_in_the_300kmph_zone-36582-0.html
 
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