ARTICLES - Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:49 - 0 Comments

Artificially rubber a track?

I was watching the coverage of the European GP recently and there were a lot of complaints about the track being green due to the lack of running prior to the first free practice on friday. So what happened then was that the front running teams sat back and waited while the usual midfield and lower teams swept the track cleaned and rubbered it in slightly.

Overnight rain meant that the saturday morning practice was also run on a “green” track and the process had to begin all over again. While this might not bother me sitting at home and watching it on TV, for the person who bought tickets to have to sit in the grandstand and watch a few cars come out for most of a practice session is just crazy.

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