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Originally Posted by BootsOntheSide
If tyre changes are reintroduced for next year, banning tyre warmers would have a big effect on lap speeds every time a driver starts a new stint, and after a safety car period. However, the biggest effect would be at the start - cold tyres and aggressive rookie drivers could mean several collisions in the early races, and that could just be too big a safety problem.
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There's always a chance that aggressive rookies make a huge shunt during their first raceweekens. A ban on tyre changes wouldn't make such a different.
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If they were to introduce this change, they would ahve to consult the tyre companies first, and be sure that tyres could be designed so as to generate grip immediately. In reality, this process of design and development/testing is likely to be so high that any 'cost-cutting' element is immediately cancelled out.
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That's right. But every change to the technical regulations or sportive regulations which affect the technology, costs money. That's also the reason why it is very doubtfull whether the one tyre rule and one engine rule made the teams save money.