Formula1 refuelling 2010 – Should Diesel be allowed to compete in next years championship or will there be only a few finishers.

I am thinking back to Formula1 era where there were no refuelling allowed, it must be said that was when the turbo versions of the formula1 cars was allowed. I seem to remember a race where there were only 3 or 4 cars that managed to finish the race due to all the other participants running out of fuel. Should Diesel cars be allowed in next year’s competition? At least there fuel consumption is a lot better than the normal formula1 cars and will be lighter in weight and can go further with the same amount of fuel . This should be a good contest between the fuel and diesel with both having some advantages and disadvantages for both and where diesel has improved rapidly during the last few years

What was the reason behind the no refueling decision in F1

Was this decision made to save money in the racing calendar or was this done to prevent the controversy that happened a few times this year that one car was released by the lollypop man after fuel was taken onboard by one racer and another team fuelled with less fuel to try and jump a competitor in the middle stint? This is a bone of contention that can only be explained by the powers residing over the management of Formula1. The question at the top of my mind is : How will qualifying be influenced by this rule, will the team have to qualify with a full fuel tank and then have a certain amount of fuel added at the end of qualifying or will the team qualify with a empty fuel tank and then be allowed to add any amount of fuel at the end of the qualifying.

By my reasoning both ways of implementation will have benefits and disadvantages to next years racing. The benefit of the qualifying and addition of a certain amount of fuel will be quite heavy on the tyre usage but the team with the best car with a full tank will benefit. The advantage of the second type of qualifying will be that the fastest car will be at the front of the grid but the race might get compromised with filling the car and you might get a long procession of F1 cars that can’t overtake the front car until it is lighter.

I will be searching for answers and you are welcome to air your concerns and thinking around this factor in next years F1

I have found other views at http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/05/03/why-f1-will-be-better-without-refuelling/

No refueling in 2010 Formula 1 races: Will this cause more accidents at the start of the race?

News from formula1 is that here will be no refuelling in next year’s competition. My view on this news is that there will be more accidents at the start of the races as the cars will be carrying more fuel and will be more difficult to slow down especially at the start of the race with the cars in close proximity of each other. We will have to find out what the maximum weight of the cars will be set to . If anybody find out feel welcome to add it to this post
It will be interesting to see if there will be a review after the first half of the season as it will detract from racing if there is only a few cars finishing a race.