Third Cars Banned

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One of the new rule changes brought in by the FIA, along with the fact that all teams will now be limited to 2 cars in practice sessions with 3rd Drivers vying for seats with #1 and #2 drivers.

Crucially, the friday session will now be exempt from the 1 engine per 2 race rule in an attempt to get some of the bigger names running through Friday sessions.

And (AT LAST) lapped cars will be ordered to stay clear of leading cars under safety car conditions.

To compliment the waving of blue flags, a new global positioning system will be put into the cockpit display to help drivers know they're lapping/being lapped.

The quantity of dry tyres will be doubled in 2007 to 14 sets and stewards will have greater freedom to impose grid penalties.

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So do they have to take the race engine out and put the practice engine in, and swap again after?

I'm suprised it's taken this long to introduce a lights system that does the same job as the flags, but it's good to hear that it's finally arrived. No more "I didn't see the flags" excuses.
 
I'd presume swapping engines is the way it will work.

Agreed it is about time they gave the drivers more help when it comes to lapping/being lapped, and I'm glad about the lapped cars under safety car conditions regulation has come in. So many times it's cost drivers big time having to get past a few lapped cars after the restart...I remember Silverstone last year or the year before, Kimi had the pace to take Schumi but because of two lapped cars he never got close enough before the Ferrari found it's form in the final laps.
 
Old news.

Despite that, I really disagree with the new Safety Car rules. If there is a lapped car between you and the guy ahead of you, chances are that you weren&#8217;t close enough to race with him anyway. It&#8217;s just manufactured racing, and it doesn&#8217;t sit well with me.

Remember, the purpose of the Safety Car is to stop the racing for a few moments while any danger on the track is cleared. It is not meant to increase the on-track action. Well, I guess it is with these new rules. :indiff:

With the GPS system, didn&#8217;t they try this a few years ago?
 
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Old news.

Despite that, I really disagree with the new Safety Car rules. If there is a lapped car between you and the guy ahead of you, chances are that you weren’t close enough to race with him anyway. It’s just manufactured racing, and it doesn’t sit well with me.

Remember, the purpose of the Safety Car is to stop the racing for a few moments while any danger on the track is cleared. It is not meant to increase the on-track action. Well, I guess it is with these new rules. :indiff:

With the GPS system, didn’t they try this a few years ago?
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Yeah, in racing I don't really like when somebody builds up a lead and then loses it with the safety car. But I guess teams somehow factor in the possibility of a safety car period or maybe not.
 
Can't be that old a news if it's only just been put up, eh, guess I don't have better sources then.

Anyway, well what if a driver pits under the safety car and goes from being just 3 seconds behind to however many seconds and 2 lapped cars in front, surely the 3 second gap show's that driver was close enough to race and should be when the race re-starts?

Lapped cars do nothing but get in the way, otherwise there'd be no rules of blue flags etc so I think it's perfectly good. Anything happens in racing and not everything is fair, same as any other sport really, and if that includes having gaps reduced to nothing under safety car...so be it.
 

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