[Fot] F1 Championship - Not over yet?!

[William G Rosenbach]

Is it time to suspect thermometers? Accuracy, calibration, user
competency; the basics.
Bill R
  
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:18:30 -0700 Bill Babcock <billb at bnj.com> writes:
> Oops, jammed up by the message size limit. Let's try this:
> 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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