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Originally Posted by Jim Zondag
Sure, but this FI holiday is more of an agreed upon 2 week break by the participants during the peak of summer so that those with families have some hope of sneaking in a summer vacation. F1 Teams can pick when they do this break based on their own state of preparedness. FRC restriction is kind of the other way around.
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There are actually lots of goofy rules in Motorsports. For instance NASCAR will let you work on the car. They just won't let you test it:
http://aol.sportingnews.com/nascar/s...-series-venues
At least until this year. That is a big reason why you see so many teams sneaking into high speed wind tunnels at night is because they cannot test on represntative tracks. So, instead of a practice bot, NASCAR teams build "practice facilities".... or at least rents them.
Big Budget teams even bought their own
tunnels (think tunnel in a mountian instead of wind tunnel...)
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The long and short of it is teams that want to find a way will, but I am proposing a compromise between the two camps that I think might help some find the balance that others are concerned about.
Currently there is only a small percentage that build a practice bot and fully utilize it. Most teams here in Michigan do use the "out of bag time" or at least 4/6 hours before their district events. Some have even stopped building their practice bots now that they have a reasonable amount of practice time during un-bag. As unbag time increases, this will give more opportunity to those that do not build a practice bot. It might also curb the concerns of those that would "quit if there was no lock-up" period. I have been told this by many people that I have a great deal of respect for. My guess is it is right around 6 hours/week useable in 2 hour blocks minimum.