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Titolo: [ENG] FIA announces change to qualifying regulations from Imola

From Imola onwards, the sessions will be run as previously in Bahrain and
Malaysia, and today in Melbourne , with the six slowest cars being
eliminated from qualifying at the end of each of the first two sessions.
However, the times recorded will only be used in part to form the grid.
The changes have been made with the following goals in mind:
  *  To increase transparency in the decision making processes
  *  To reduce the cost of competing
  *  To improve the sporting spectacle
  The FIA considers that the changes should have no negative impact on
  the safety profile of either races or qualifying sessions.
  The grid will be now calculated as follows:
  Positions 17 to 22:
  A random selection device will be filled with balls marked with the
  race numbers of each car excluded after the first session. The machine
  will mix the balls for one minute at which point the status light on
  the selection machine will turn green. The first ball will then be
  selected. The car with the race number corresponding to the ball drawn
  first will be allocated start position 17. This procedure will be
  repeated every 30 seconds until the sixth and final ball is drawn for
  the car that will start in 22nd place on the grid. The status light
  will then show red.
  There will then be a five minute break.
  Positions 11 to 16:
  Balls marked with the race numbers of each car excluded after the
  second qualifying session will be entered into the random selection
  device. The machine will mix the balls for one minute before the light
  turns green and the first ball is selected. The car with the race
  number corresponding to the ball drawn first will be allocated start
  position 11. This procedure will be repeated every 30 seconds until the
  sixth and final ball is drawn for the car that will start in 16th place
  on the grid. The status light will then show red.
  There will then be a five minute break.
  Positions 1 to 10:
  Balls marked with the race numbers of all remaining cars will be
  entered into the random selection device. The machine will mix the
  balls for one minute before the light turns green and the first ball is
  selected. The car with the race number corresponding to the ball drawn
  first will be allocated pole position. This procedure will be repeated
  every 30 seconds until the tenth and final ball is drawn for the car
  that will start in 10th place on the grid.
  Penalties for changing engines and refuelling allowances
  In order to reduce confusion, penalties for changing engines will be
  combined with the selection of fuel for the race.
  Extensive simulations have shown that the likelihood of a ball being
  selected by the random selection device decreases significantly with
  the mass of the ball. Before the start of qualifying, teams will be
  required to add ballast to the balls bearing the race numbers of their
  cars, with 1mg of ballast representing 1kg of fuel. The FIA will also
  add a further 10mg of ballast to each ball where the corresponding car
  has undergone an engine change in between the previous race and the
  start of qualifying. Aerodynamic profiling or alteration of the
  frictional coefficient of the balls is not permitted.
  In order to provide an incentive to teams to provide entertainment
  during the final qualifying session, the FIA will remove 20mg of
  ballast from the ball corresponding to the car setting the fastest time
  in this session, 18 mg from the second fastest car and so on.
  After the grid draw, fuel may be added to the cars in parc ferme based
  on the weights of the balls as provided by the teams at the start of
  the grid draw.
  Timing change
  Future qualifying sessions will now be run one hour earlier than
  previously stated in order to allow the grid draw to be shown live with
  minimal impact to television schedules. Once the results of the timed
  sessions are known, the ball selections will commence, typically at
  14:00 local time to facilitate television coverage of the grid draw.
  (Max's note for removal before publication: For some strange reason
  which escapes me now, we picked 12:30 for the British GP, was this just
  because Bernie wanted to annoy those idiots at Silverstone ?) Local
  celebrities will be encouraged to carry out the draw. Where the
  celebrity chosen is deemed not famous enough, a replacement celebrity
  may be substituted by FOM.
  The FIA have also announced the addition of a major trade sponsor;
  LotteryBallsUp, manufacturers of gaming instruments. It is anticipated
  that LotteryBallsUp will also be allocated responsibility for race
  results for the 2008 season, although the FIA reserves the right to
  introduce this during the current season if a single manufacturer wins
  more than a certain percentage, yet to be announced, of race wins.
  Rumours that LotteryBallsUp is co-owned by the wife of a senior FIA or
  FOM executive are said to be wide of the mark.
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   the selection machine will turn green. 
Ma vacaghèr ......... :-)))))))

 
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A parte che il link funziona e l'articolo è sato pubblicato davvero...
A parte quello, dicevo, viste le ultime str***ate di Mosley e della
FIA, non mi stupirebbe più di tanto, anche in date diverse da oggi!
Ciao.
Mauro