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Well, this suggestion has now been made: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/84114

I don't think it's dumb. Pretty smart if you ask me. Minimum fuel in the tank is not a new idea, and if it prevents cars running out of fuel and going slow on the track, then it sounds like a good idea.

The only downside is that if fuel saving again becomes an issue (no doubt it will), potentially teams would gamble on having enough in the tank meaning potential disqualifications may become more likely. Then again, its not too dissimilar to other post race checks like ride height, restrictor, airbox imperforations etc.

We've had a whole bunch of accidents where cars flew that didn't need low fuel situations to cause it.

Knee jerk reactions suck.

I'm sorry, but that's just fucking retarded. The sanctioning body should not be stipulating how much fuel needs to be in the tank at the end of a race. Next thing will be you need to have X amount of rubber left on your tires. This was a racing accident, pure and simple. Every time people see something really horrible the immediate reaction is "OH GOD WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING, THAT CAN'T HAPPEN!!!" Shit happens, this is racing, deal with it.

Well obviously, yes. But this is just one way of decreasing some incidents. One step at a time..



Well, now you are just being silly. Just to give an example, minimum fuel in the car has been newly introduced into F1 this year and that has been fine so far; no post-race disqualifications etc. So theres no reason why it couldn't work.

The minimum fuel reagulation just affects the fuel left at the end of the race. You can still run dry before a pitstop. Besides that the series would be a complete joke if every secund winner gets disqualified due to lack of fuel.

Please..No Minimum-Fuel-At-End rule..Its just so stupid and doesnt make sense.

Typical knee-jerk reaction. Would suck if that happened, I like fuel mileage finishes. See NASCAR at Michigan last year.

I doubt they'll listen to those two anyway.

Its a shame they're trying to distract from the issue of keeping the damn cars on the ground in the first place....

With wheel to wheel contact you can't keep the car on the ground. Even an F1 car would have taken of with this impact we saw and at that speed.

Exactly.

You can design a car from scratch that won't fly I suppose, but attempting to bodge a chassis which is now 7 years old is a bad plan. Whos doing the distracting anyway? Blundell and Luyendyk? When did we start taking their opinions on the series, lol.

It just makes me look forward to the next generation of car even more.

what are precisely the new regulations for the next generation of cars ?