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[scotty]

I know they've gotten rid of the closing of the pit lane where drivers face a penalty if they pit for tyres/fuel etc.

[7UpJordan]

Is there any rule or regulation as to how many front wings/nose cones can be replaced during a single race? There may be a lot of carbon fiber on the track!

not as i know of but 2 pit stops and your 1 lap down = race over

Unless the smash is big enough to warrant an SC of course... that is if they are keeping the 'lapped cars may pass the safety car' rule.

Yes I think safety car rules have been getting softer over the years, gone are the days when a car crashed out on a street circuit could be just shoved over to the other side of the track and left there for the rest of the race whilst everybody flies past it.

[Denthúl]

Is there any rule or regulation as to how many front wings/nose cones can be replaced during a single race? There may be a lot of carbon fiber on the track!

not as i know of but 2 pit stops and your 1 lap down = race over

Not if everyone's doing it

[McLaren Fan]

Are they allowed to have their KERS charged for the start?

KERS can't be charged whilst the car is stationary during a race pit stop. However, as far as I'm aware, the regulations don't actually mention anything about in the garage. And even if that's not permissable, the amount of braking that goes on during the parade lap should give them a good amount of charge anyway.

If the rules don't say anything about KERS being charged in the garage, that could be pretty big omission, depending upon how quickly it takes to charge up the KERS. It could be that the drivers could charge up their KERS on the parade lap without too much bother.

[bud]

would be abit hard to charge them when they are stationary in the pit garage though.

[McLaren Fan]

would be abit hard to charge them when they are stationary in the pit garage though.

It depends. Those who have gone down the battery route could devise something to charge it before going out.

[bud]

would be abit hard to charge them when they are stationary in the pit garage though.

It depends. Those who have gone down the battery route could devise something to charge it before going out.

then it would cease to be a kinetic energy recovery device

[McLaren Fan]

would be abit hard to charge them when they are stationary in the pit garage though.

It depends. Those who have gone down the battery route could devise something to charge it before going out.

then it would cease to be a kinetic energy recovery device

And a possible corollary of that is charging the battery is illegal.

[GarethStr]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n8OieqY6HJI

Quite a good angle I found of the crash. Unfortunate there is no sound.

I also found this related to the video. Extremely lucky nobody got hurt.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aUUUKuo8h ... re=related

[GarethStr]

Oops just realised this is about 2009 haha