Re: Fisi didn't finish, or did he?
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:54 pm
I think we agree, ol Steinmaster. The first major difference this year is that Fisi will actually have an advantaging in qualifying as opposed to last year when he would have had a disadvantage. Interesting times these are.schmorbraten wrote:No, I think it was the same last year. Sometime in 2005 Toyota pulled out a car during the last laps of a GP while they were out of the points, afterwards which the FIA clarified that rule and said they would look closely into incidents like that, so that no one can have this obvious advantage by faking a DNF. As far as I know, the rules concerning engine changing / DNF or not / grid place demotion haven't changed from 2005 to 2006.BlinkyBill wrote:Ahh that makes sense: if you finish - your stuffed, if you dont, your ok. . . Thats the first real major difference to last year then isnt it. Last year if you DNF - you get a new engine but qualify first . . . so its not a noted advantage. This year, if your out of the points, and hit the self destruct button on your hydraulics, then you dont have the qualifying penalty for the next race and can start with a fresh engineschmorbraten wrote:
No, I think Fisi retired, that's why they can send his engine to Viry to inspect it and he doesn't get a 10 place penalty for that, whilst JPM *did* finish and can't get his engine changed without copping the penalty. Right?
The "qualifying first after DNF in the last race" simply doesn't apply any more this year because the qualifying format was changed.