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Originally Posted by ian@huth
If its the push to pass system that you are talking about then it is a time controlled boost that you can activate to give you chance to overtake or resist being overtaken. You have only so many seconds per race where you can use it which is preset by the race organisers and cannot be altered or extended.
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eh? its not controlled by the race organisers at all. The push to pass, or overtake button. Temporarly raises the rev limiter, and uses a more aggresive engine mapping. The only reason there is a limited amount of it is because it puts a high strain on the engine and is not sustainable. The engine engineers know how much (or so they reckon) how much it can safely take before going bang.
Personally i think they should scrap the one engine should last x many races and such. BUT impose a limit on how many NEW engines can be used per season.
At present practice sessions are abit of a joke since they do so little running in them because engine milage is limited.
In terms of fan appeal going to friday / saturday at silverstone used to be appealing to me because you got to see alot of running for not alot of money. (20 cars * 12 laps for qually, + 20 or so more laps per car in the morning on sat) It was allways more interesting in qualy to see more than one car out on track going for it at the same time and there was allways the risk of being borked by a slow car.
To me circuit entrance on a sunday is just ludicrus. I have only ever gone when i've managed to get some freebies of f1 teams £100 odd quid a head is just silly. I'd much rather pay a tenner and goto a 750motor club event. The racing is closer the paddock is open and you can get alot closer. The main bit being its cheap!
Fridays / saturdays used to be about £20/ head with sunday being £80 odd
I thought it was funny when they interviewed some of those at indy saying it was a waste of $80 or so (£50 BARGAIN compared to silverstone)