Traction control banned from 2008

taken from autosport.com :

Traction control has been banned from Formula One from the start of next year in a move supported by all teams and rubber-stamped by the FIA.

A meeting of the FIA's World Motor Sport Council earlier this week approved a number of changes to the 2008 F1 Technical Regulations - the most significant of which appears to be a complete ban on traction control.

Article 9.3 of the newly amended rules states: "No car may be equipped with a system or device which is capable of preventing the driven wheels from spinning under power or of compensating for excessive throttle demand by the driver.

"Any device or system which notifies the driver of the onset of wheel spin is not permitted."

Traction control returned to F1 in 2001 following years of suspicion in the sport that some teams were running clever engine management systems to get around a ban that existed at the time.

It was felt that with it was virtually impossible to guarantee that teams were not running such systems, so the teams agreed the only way forward was to free up the regulations.

However, the move to a standard ECU in 2008 means that it will be easier for the FIA to police engine management systems – and it is believed that this has been the catalyst for engineering such a major rule change.

super duper!

too much rules!!!!!

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I curious how fernando and kimi and all young drivers will do it without traction controle.

without problems. they`ve driven other formulas without it, so they will get used to it soon.

yeah and they did drove early 2001 season without it

the first step in the right direction, now lets have slicks and a biiiiig aero decrease

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Yay!

Great news, it should have never been alowed to come back imo.

Wehay I've been waiting for this!

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Iceman-Kimi Wrote:
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> I curious how fernando and kimi and all young
> drivers will do it without traction controle.


i want to see kubica.. and ralf, maybe a comeback from him??

Now if they could get rid of those awfull looking winglets and onbody aero parts and bring back slick tyres then i'll be very happy.

edit, just found some bad news now:
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/30/2007 05:08PM by mikef1.

Jenson for champion anybody?!


Mind you, on the basis of this year's car, I'm not holding out for miracles!

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GPGSL S5 Race driver for IED.

@#$%& yea, no more TC!! made my day that has!!

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turkey_machine Wrote:
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> Jenson for champion anybody?!
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>
> Mind you, on the basis of this year's car, I'm not
> holding out for miracles!

Don't get Senna and Chet started, please!

Good. No slicks though.

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I think its better with the grooved tires...sliks looks good on indy cars, not f1.

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Scuderia Ferrari Forever

the FIA has now agreed to continue with the current grooved tyres.

Agreed? Agreed with whom?

I think the FIA are seriously going the wrong way, time to bring in new people there, who know what the fans want!

mschumi schreef:
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> I think its better with the grooved tires...sliks
> looks good on indy cars, not f1.

It's not about the looks, it's about the racing. If you care about looks, go read some Playboy magazines.

LOL! But these guys are p*****s somebody should really go over to max mosley and kick him in the nuts! That guy doesnt know what the fans want!