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Re: "Spare Parts" Rules Are Broken

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Originally Posted by Aidan F. Browne
Please don't dilute this thread with a discussion of 6 weeks or no 6 weeks -- there are other threads that address that.

The focus of this thread is the 2004 Spare Parts rules as they are written.

Thanks,

Aidan
Aiden,

Someone else porposed a rule change for next year to help alleviate the problem. I was simply doing the same. What is the point of having this thread if not to come up with solutions to the problem for future years?

As long as you have rules of this nature, some teams are going to cheat. It's that simple. Formula 1 racing used to have the same problem with electronic aids - they couldn't effectively police them so they decided that the best thing to do was to just make it legal so that all teams could do it (and not have to worry about rule interpretation, ethics, etc.). I'm proposing a similar measure for FIRST. It's pretty obvious that it can't be stopped and that some teams are doing it. Therefore, I propose that we let all teams do it.
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