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On Oct 21, 2007, at 11:16 PM, Bill Babcock wrote:
> I should have put quotes around this section
> On Oct 21, 2007, at 11:14 PM, Bill Babcock wrote:
>
>> Actually, you're wrong, and that's part of the steward's decision.
>> The FIA samples the fuel during pits stops. They don't take it from
>> the car, they take it from the fueling rig.
>>
>> >>>"Article 6.5.5 of the F1 technical rules state that, No fuel
>> on board
>> the car may be more than 10 degrees centigrade below ambient
>> temperature. The FIA have now confirmed that the trios fuel
>> temperatures were outside the permitted temperatures, saying the fuel
>> was more than 10 degrees below the ambient temperature.
>>
>> In a statement, it has been revealed that during his first pit-stop,
>> Heidfelds fuel temperature was 13 degrees lower than the ambient
>> temperature, and during his second stop, his fuel was 12 degrees
>> lower.
>>
>> Robert Kubicas pit-stops have revealed that his temperatures were 14
>> degrees, 13 degrees and 13 degrees out respectively. Nico Rosbergs
>> fuel temperatures were 13 and 12 degrees out.
>>
>> It has also been revealed that the second BMW of Kazuki Nakajima also
>> had fuel temperature irregularities his fuel was 12 degrees out on
>> the first stop, however his fuel temperatures were within regulations
>> on his second stop. The air temperature during the race averaged 37
>> degrees, while track temperatures topped a record 64 degrees."<<<
>>
>> The stewards stated in their finding that they have no precise
>> reading of the fuel on board the car, and that since the only
>> temperatures they have available are from the fueling rigs, that the
>> measurements don't fit the requirements of the regulation which
>> states the "fuel on board can be no more than ten degrees cooler than
>> ambient." Fuel rig temperature is not a completely accurate
>> indication of the temperature on board, which is the how the
>> regulation reads.
>>
>> This seems to be a pretty clear decision even if it rests on a
>> technical point that the stewards are not really qualified to make.
>> But they unfortunately clouded the issue by also saying that the
>> definition of ambient was only assumed to be the temperature
>> indicated on the F1 management timing monitors but there was a large
>> discrepancy between the FOM ambient and the meteorologists that the
>> teams contract with, and the regulation does not clearly state that
>> the FOM number is definitive.
>>
>> The stewards conclusion was that there is sufficient doubt as to both
>> the temperature of the fuel actually on board and as to the true
>> ambient temperature to render it inappropriate to impose a penalty
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