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   Geoff  writes:   
   > On 29/07/2024 8:16 pm, ~misfit~ wrote:   
   >> On 29/07/2024 8:04 pm, ~misfit~ wrote:   
   >>> On 29/07/2024 5:22 pm, Woozy Song wrote:   
   >>>> In another forum, a zillion posters said because he did 1-stop   
   >>>> that he wore a few kg extra rubber off the tyres. But then would   
   >>>> not the tyres be unsafe in the final laps?   
   >>>   
   >>> The other forum is filled with clowns. It's nothing to do with the   
   >>> tyres, Merc have admitted it was their error. (Often a light car is   
   >>> ballasted up to weight and I dare say that this was done   
   >>> incorrectly.)   
   >>   
   >> Ehhh... I've just done some quick reading and Mark Hughes thinks it   
   >> WAS the tyres (and lack of a cooldown lap to pickup   
   >> marbles?).  Buggered if I know, I could have been wrong   
   >> above. I remember the days when engineers always told the driver to   
   >> be sure to get plenty of tyre pickup on the cooldown lap but haven't   
   >> heard anything like that for ... decades?   
   >   
   > I hear it all the time .   
      
   Not so much in the last few years, but from about a decade ago you would   
   always get a euphemism for it in the post-race radio - silly fluffy   
   words like "standard in-lap procedure". Yeah, you're not hiding anything   
   from anyone using terms like that, in particular when Brundle is   
   explaining it the second after it's aired.   
      
   Phil   
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