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	<title>Comments on: Luca di Montezemolo is right: F1&#8242;s safety car rules are humiliating for the sport</title>
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		<title>By: bernification</title>
		<link>http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2008/10/01/luca-di-montezemolo-is-right-f1s-safety-car-rules-are-humiliating-for-the-sport/comment-page-6/#comment-218502</link>
		<dc:creator>bernification</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This rule was introduced because of drivers failing to drive safely- the FIA are just responding to the drivers behaviour.

I remember Alonsos crash very well and thought at the time that it was a very irresponsible way to drive- had there been any marshalls on circuit he would have totalled them.
 So really, it&#039;s a responce to the drivers behaviour, and in this win at all cost mentality any time someone can take an advantage out of a situation, they will.

The FIA are just trying to maintain the safety of there marshalls.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This rule was introduced because of drivers failing to drive safely- the FIA are just responding to the drivers behaviour.</p>
<p>I remember Alonsos crash very well and thought at the time that it was a very irresponsible way to drive- had there been any marshalls on circuit he would have totalled them.<br />
 So really, it&#8217;s a responce to the drivers behaviour, and in this win at all cost mentality any time someone can take an advantage out of a situation, they will.</p>
<p>The FIA are just trying to maintain the safety of there marshalls.</p>
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		<title>By: Pingguest</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pingguest</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We don&#039;t need the Safety Car in my opinion. Just introduce a full-course yellow on the first lap after an accident and then a maximum speed for the following laps.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We don&#8217;t need the Safety Car in my opinion. Just introduce a full-course yellow on the first lap after an accident and then a maximum speed for the following laps.</p>
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		<title>By: Steve K</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve K</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In the IRL you can pit when pit lane is closed only to get fuel if you are otherwise going to run out--just a splash.  You cannot get new tires and you cannot make changes to the car.  Such a rule would have certainly have helped Rosberg and Kubica.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the IRL you can pit when pit lane is closed only to get fuel if you are otherwise going to run out&#8211;just a splash.  You cannot get new tires and you cannot make changes to the car.  Such a rule would have certainly have helped Rosberg and Kubica.</p>
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		<title>By: Chaz</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chaz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The pit lane closure rule under the safety car is completely ridiculous.  We are led to believe these are all professional teams and there are a whole host of pit lane rules, so surely the drivers and teams should just be allowed to get on with racing and not be penalized for their car running out of fuel at the wrong time.

mmmmm incidentally and I wonder what Ferrari sales are like in that part of the world...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The pit lane closure rule under the safety car is completely ridiculous.  We are led to believe these are all professional teams and there are a whole host of pit lane rules, so surely the drivers and teams should just be allowed to get on with racing and not be penalized for their car running out of fuel at the wrong time.</p>
<p>mmmmm incidentally and I wonder what Ferrari sales are like in that part of the world&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Tim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Closing the pitlane is nothing to do with protecting the safety car. It&#039;s all about stopping drivers from racing back to the pits through yellow flag zones, when there may be debris or marshalls on the track. 

Did this happen before the current rules came in? Yes, at the 2003 Brazilian GP Fernando Alonso was doing exactly this and crashed heavily on the debris from Mark Webber&#039;s Jaguar, which had gone off in a big way just before the pits. 

If the pitlane is closed as soon as the safety car has gone out, there&#039;s no incentive to get back to the pits ASAP. But the pits aren&#039;t physically closed, so cars can still come into refuel albeit with a ten second stop go penalty. It&#039;s this rule that ruins races, not the safety car generally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Closing the pitlane is nothing to do with protecting the safety car. It&#8217;s all about stopping drivers from racing back to the pits through yellow flag zones, when there may be debris or marshalls on the track. </p>
<p>Did this happen before the current rules came in? Yes, at the 2003 Brazilian GP Fernando Alonso was doing exactly this and crashed heavily on the debris from Mark Webber&#8217;s Jaguar, which had gone off in a big way just before the pits. </p>
<p>If the pitlane is closed as soon as the safety car has gone out, there&#8217;s no incentive to get back to the pits ASAP. But the pits aren&#8217;t physically closed, so cars can still come into refuel albeit with a ten second stop go penalty. It&#8217;s this rule that ruins races, not the safety car generally.</p>
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		<title>By: Keith Collantine</title>
		<link>http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2008/10/01/luca-di-montezemolo-is-right-f1s-safety-car-rules-are-humiliating-for-the-sport/comment-page-5/#comment-218291</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith Collantine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;most all sports have bad rules. they are the one’s spicing up the game.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
That&#039;s a nugget of pure truth right there!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>most all sports have bad rules. they are the one’s spicing up the game.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s a nugget of pure truth right there!</p>
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		<title>By: CD</title>
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		<dc:creator>CD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>oh sorry about that Keith, i thought were talking about the safety car rules as a whole. In this case, affected parties may appeal. but don&#039;t expect FIA will consider it. most all sports have bad rules. they are the one&#039;s spicing up the game.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oh sorry about that Keith, i thought were talking about the safety car rules as a whole. In this case, affected parties may appeal. but don&#8217;t expect FIA will consider it. most all sports have bad rules. they are the one&#8217;s spicing up the game.</p>
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		<title>By: Keith Collantine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Keith Collantine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CD - What I&#039;m talking about here is the &#039;pit lane closure&#039; rule, which didn&#039;t affect Ferrari at all. It only affects a tiny number of drivers per season but it usually destroys their races when it does.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CD &#8211; What I&#8217;m talking about here is the &#8216;pit lane closure&#8217; rule, which didn&#8217;t affect Ferrari at all. It only affects a tiny number of drivers per season but it usually destroys their races when it does.</p>
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		<title>By: CD</title>
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		<dc:creator>CD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Keith

But that&#039;s also the point: &quot;it&#039;s randomly happening.&quot; so i think it was fair enough. it&#039;s part of racing. I am a ferrari fan, in this case i must say that it didn&#039;t go well for ferrari due to the safety car issues, but i didn&#039;t mind. It&#039;s part of the game, sometimes the ball goes your way, sometimes not. It&#039;s random anyway.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Keith</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s also the point: &#8220;it&#8217;s randomly happening.&#8221; so i think it was fair enough. it&#8217;s part of racing. I am a ferrari fan, in this case i must say that it didn&#8217;t go well for ferrari due to the safety car issues, but i didn&#8217;t mind. It&#8217;s part of the game, sometimes the ball goes your way, sometimes not. It&#8217;s random anyway.</p>
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		<title>By: Keith Collantine</title>
		<link>http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2008/10/01/luca-di-montezemolo-is-right-f1s-safety-car-rules-are-humiliating-for-the-sport/comment-page-5/#comment-218279</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith Collantine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cd - &lt;blockquote&gt;Since everybody were affected by the bad rule, I guess there should be an acceptance from all teams.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
But that&#039;s the point: not everybody has been affected by the rules. They only affect occasional drivers entirely at random.

Some people would argue &quot;it doesn&#039;t matter because it the long run each driver and team will be affected&quot;, but it doesn&#039;t work that way because safety car periods don&#039;t happen often enough in F1 (unlike, say, NASCAR or Indy Car).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cd &#8211;<br />
<blockquote>Since everybody were affected by the bad rule, I guess there should be an acceptance from all teams.</p></blockquote>
<p>But that&#8217;s the point: not everybody has been affected by the rules. They only affect occasional drivers entirely at random.</p>
<p>Some people would argue &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t matter because it the long run each driver and team will be affected&#8221;, but it doesn&#8217;t work that way because safety car periods don&#8217;t happen often enough in F1 (unlike, say, NASCAR or Indy Car).</p>
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