Talk:Formula One regulations

message: The scoring details are wrong.  Under current rules FIA will award points to retired cars.  Read the sporting regulations very carefully and you will see there is no current provision that requires a car to be classified in order to score points.  This has already happened in Endurance World FIA championship this season.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.70.197.90 (talk) 14:49, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes but the turbocharger is known since before the WWII. Reguarding the rule there's no difference between a turbo and a simple supercharger. Maybe we should write simply "charged" ?
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Sorry Ericd. The reason I removed the content of this page is because I made a new page called Formula One regulations and copied the content. I think that regulations is a more accurate description than rules. I realise that I shouldn't have simply deleted the content of this page though. Do you think that this page should be a redirect to F1 regs, put up on VfD or simply kept as it is, bearing in mind that the main F1 page is the only article that links here? 999 10:26, 8 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  scoring 

message: The article says: "Starting from the pit lane means they start at the tail end of the grid, however, they can not only change an engine, but also start the race on a full load of fuel and with fresh tires" (Race procedure). Is this correct? Is changing of tires (under the new regulations) allowed? Also doesn't refueling AND changing tires in the same pitstop result in a drive-through penalty? Or does a start from the pit not count as a pitstop? Felsir 06:44, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
I think when cars start from the pits and want to add extra fuel (if they were top ten qualifiers) they can't add fuel until the race starts. So it counts as a pitstop. 
I think one driver was punished (since the race fuel thing started) for refueling in the pits at the start - the start was delayed because someone had stalled, but the team started the fuelling when they thought the lights were going out, instead of when the lights actually did.
if they must do other significant work, body work or suspension adjustments, the car will start from the pit lane.
This isn't strictly correct. At Monaco Massa crashed in practice and he started from last on the grid (only because he hadn't set a time). However as long as the damaged parts are replaced with identically set up parts there is no penalty. Maybe if the team wished to change the setup the car would have to start from the pits.
If, for some reason, the car cannot start the race (engine failure during qualifying or practice, suspension fails, etc), the car can still join the race, but will take a 10-position penalty at the start.
The ten-place penalty is only for engine failures that occur before qualifying. No other problems get punished. (Engine fails during/after qualifying and the car goes to the back.)
--Don Speekingleesh 22:42, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  start from pit 

message: I seem to remember reading somewhere that if all the technical innovations had been allowed to continue unregulated, it's estimated that todays formula one cars would be capable of a top speed of over 400 mph, and 0-100 in about 2 seconds. Might be worth incorporating to demonstrate need for restrictions on technology in F1. 81.76.6.123 10:45, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reason for technical limitations 

message: Does anyone know if the two most severe possible penalties listed (being banned for a number of races, and being banned for the rest of the championship) have ever been applied, and if so when? FiggyBee 17:40, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well M. Schumacher in 1997 was disqualified from the World Championship, which I suppose is even more extreme than being banned for the rest of the championship. Alexj2002 16:23, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Penalties 

message: From the article: "The race is started by ten red lights, controlled by Charlie Whiting. The lights illuminate two at a time, left to right, in one-second intervals, and then go out simultaneously  after an interval of between four and seven seconds. When the lights go out, the race begins."
10 red lights? I'm almost sure it's only five (see  for example. The lights appear from videos I've watched to be arranged as shown on the right. The official F1 website  agrees "Once all cars have safely taken up their grid positions at the end of the formation lap five red lights will appear in sequence at one-second intervals" Unless there are any objection, I'm going to change the article. Alexj2002 13:32, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Watching the race today (2006 Turkish Grand Prix) it's definately 5. I'm changing the article. Alexj2002 23:19, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For several years now it has been ten red lights - however on TV we only see the reverse side which is condensed to the two rows (5 red, 3 orange, 2 green) we are familiar with. The Starting lights proper are arranged in four rows of 5 - 5 orange on the top row, then 5 green, then two rows of 5 red, as seen in my pictures from 2005 British GP , ,  Scrxisi (talk) 14:48, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: My understanding is that this is the light layout as the driver sees it (my diagram at right), correct ? So why does this article still state 5 ? Together with Formula One racing and Formula One. Makes sense to me that the lights are duplicated - is it for safety (in case one fails) ? However, F1's own website states "five red lights will appear in sequence at one-second intervals. These red lights are then extinguished to signal the start of the race" [ http://www.formula1.com/content/fom-website/en/championship/inside-f1/rules-regs/Race_start_procedure.html ] and [ https://www.formula1.com/content/fom-website/en/championship/inside-f1/understanding-f1-racing/The_race_start.html ]. But F1's own photo (Slide 1 in sequence) of the light gantry as seen by drivers [ https://www.formula1.com/content/fom-website/en/championship/inside-f1/understanding-f1-racing/The_race_start.html ] indeed shows lights in pairs i.e. 10 reds. Huh ? How does this error keep getting trotted out ? Rcbutcher (talk) 00:23, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
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I've created an animated gif showing race start sequence as the drivers actually see it for this article based on actual photos and videos, giving minimum four seconds between  all lights coming on and going out to start the race. Comments ? Rcbutcher (talk) 05:03, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I've corrected the error introduced by user:Alexj2002 in 2006. This appears to have corrupted the article which previously correctly discussed red lights in 5 pairs. Watching TV is not basis for updating encyclopedias. Rcbutcher (talk) 11:11, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Are TV viewers still seeing different start lights to what the drivers see ? If so, idiotic. Why ? I see websites about programming F1 start lights for PCs and games and they all show the TV view rather than the driver view. ?? Rcbutcher (talk) 11:20, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Start Procudure

message: (transferred from the "History" section of the article): crash test, minimal weight, fuel rules, aerodymics rules, tyre size, number of wheels. (Althought I think some of these have already been at least partly done). DH85868993 04:05, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  To Be Done 

message: I recall something about a circuit where the pit lane actually isn't much slower than the normal circuit, due to it being a short-cut, and so penalties that would be drive-throughs at other tracks are stop-gos there. Not sure what circuit it is. (Donington Park had the pit lane route be FASTER, but it only held one GP). 94.194.66.92 (talk) 19:55, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stop-go penalties with short pit lanes 

message: "slick dry-weather tyres (super soft, soft, medium and hard), of which two compounds are provided at each race". I find this confusing. Do all teams get the same two types of tyres at a race, in which case how are the two types decided; or can each team or driver select which two it/he gets ? Rcbutcher (talk) 23:50, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The tyre supplier (Pirelli) decides which two compounds are provided for each race. Every team is supplied with the same two compounds. DH85868993 (talk) 05:59, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, so what decides which compounds are provided for a race ? As a general reader rather than a motorsport fan, these are still the kinds of questions I ask when I read Wikipedia articles. I like Wikipedia to explain what/why/how. Rcbutcher (talk) 10:07, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The decision is based on factors such as the characteristics of the track surface (abrasiveness, etc) and expected temperatures. At most races, the two compounds are "two apart" (i.e. hard and soft or medium and super-soft), so that there is a marked difference in speed and longevity between the two compounds, placing extra importance on the teams' strategy of when/how long to use each compound in the race. DH85868993 (talk) 12:15, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Tyre types available to teams at a race

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message: Is someone in the world other than a British still using bhp as unit of measurementfor engine power ?? I recommend changing the power indications to kW and/or HP194.39.218.10 (talk) 12:28, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  bhp !?