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On track overtaking could be better says Brawn
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10 March 2010 @ 05:30 GMT - Charles Cooper The ban on refuelling make qualifying purer says Mercedes GP team boss Ross Brawn. He feels that the fastest driver will be on pole position because drivers will not run with fuel loads in any of the qualifying sessions. "It arguably makes qualifying purer because the fastest car/driver combination will be setting the fastest times, and the public can understand that," he said. Brawn feels that overtaking will now take place on the race track and not in the pits. "Secondly, in the race itself, overtaking was often being planned and implemented to occur as a consequence of strategy, therefore happening in the pit lane and not the circuit. In the absence of that, drivers will have a greater incentive to overtake," he said. "There have been occasions in the past where a driver hasn't had that incentive because he knows he will be running longer and can get past the car ahead strategically through the pit stops," he said. |
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"Additionally, there is the fact drivers will qualify on low-fuel, but then the next time they drive the car in anger will be into the first corner from a standing start with cold tyres, cold brakes and 160kg of fuel," he explained.
The balance of the cars will change as they fuel loads come down and drivers will have to look after their tyres. "That will be very challenging, not just in terms of getting round that first corner, but in terms of how they look after their tyres and how the balance of the car will alter as a consequence of that," he said.
"There will be drivers able to deal with those changes better than others. It's possible if all of the above is managed equally well by every driver, we'll have lost one of the strategic campaign interests the more avid fans enjoyed in the sport. Hopefully, the former points will outweigh the latter," he said.