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Title: FIA to Ban DRS During Cautions
Post by: cosworth151 on July 10, 2012, 06:05:23 PM

I'm not clear on how this will work.

FIA race director Charlie Whiting has announced that DRS will be deactivated during cautions. This is as a response to the incident with Schumacher at Silverstone.

The article isn't clear on one important point. If the yellow flag is a local caution, away from the DRS zone, will it still be shut off? Or will it only be if the yellow is in or just after the DRS zone.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/101112 (http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/101112)

Title: Re: FIA to Ban DRS During Cautions
Post by: Scott on July 10, 2012, 07:38:19 PM

Quote from: cosworth151 on July 10, 2012, 06:05:23 PM

The article isn't clear on one important point. If the yellow flag is a local caution, away from the DRS zone, will it still be shut off? Or will it only be if the yellow is in or just after the DRS zone.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/101112 (http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/101112)

I guess that's one of those new rules that are 'open to interpretation' (or in case Charlie puts a finger wrong in shutting it off at the wrong moment).

Title: Re: FIA to Ban DRS During Cautions
Post by: Alianora La Canta on July 10, 2012, 07:48:23 PM

DRS  use is already banned if there's a yellow in the zone, so it must be a ban on DRS anywhere - or redundant FIA reg #243...

Title: Re: FIA to Ban DRS During Cautions
Post by: cosworth151 on July 10, 2012, 08:33:02 PM

That's why it confused me when Charlie Whiting said that drivers would primarily have to demonstrate that they slowed down sufficiently, with the use of KERS or DRS of secondary importance. If memory serves (which it frequently doesn't anymore) the Schumi incident was in a yellow flag zone.