Yet another rule shocker!!!!!!!!

[ales]

Driver aids will stay for the whole duration of 2003.

http://www.pitpass.com/news2/news.cfm?newsid=5380

The technical devices which will ensure the absence of driver aids (in particular launch control, traction control and fully-automatic gearboxes) require substantial investment. The FIA is reluctant to commit the necessary resources until actual or threatened arbitration proceedings have been resolved.

Accordingly, the full enforcement of the long-established ban on in-car driver aids will be delayed until the first race of the 2004 season. If current uncertainties have not been resolved before the deadline for ordering the technical devices for 2004, competing teams will be required to demonstrate the absence of driver aids to the satisfaction of the stewards at each event of the 2004 and subsequent Championships.

Paris, March 28, 2003

[RallyRaider]

Huh? Common sense from the FIA? They must be up to something...

[simdel1]

Originally posted by RallyRaider
Huh? Common sense from the FIA? They must be up to something...

maybe they are trying to soften the blow for when they change the tire and engine rules for 2004. wheels and tires must be standard pedel bike tires (to lower costs of tires for teams such as minardi) and engines will be banned leaving only leg power for the drivers ( again a cost cutting exercise to vertually eliminate engine blow ups and to stop high budget teams such as ferrari from running qualifying engines.)

also in a shock move, the steering wheel will be replaced by a simple piece of rope design and the chassis will be made entirely of wood

[freakray]

Originally posted by simdel1


.....to stop high budget teams such as ferrari from running qualifying engines.

Qualifying engines?
Those haven't been around for years now.....