Tearoffs should not be allowed...

[strad]

While we are at it we should take down all the trees surrounding race tracks: their leaves can be bigger and heavier than tearoffs ant the trees just can't help their nasty littering habit.

Ah...You mean like Canada a few years back

[Greg Locock]

Admittedly this doesn't solve the aesthetic issue, but if tearoffs are actually causing grief by blocking ducts etc, normal people manage to design systems to cope with random garbage in the airflow. One can only hope that F1 teams have performed a cost benefit analysis and found that fitting intake grids in wet weather is not worth it.

[timbo]

While we are at it we should take down all the trees surrounding race tracks: their leaves can be bigger and heavier than tearoffs ant the trees just can't help their nasty littering habit.

Chestnuts in Lesmos, definitely!

[palindrome]

Why not just make them dissolve at say 120c? Obviously they would need to stand up to any heat from the sun glaring on the visor while driving. Find that maximum amount in the hottest climates. Then make the dissolve threashold 20-30c above that mark. A very hot engine or radiator should just consume it.

[MOWOG]

a cost benefit analysis

Methinks the cost of having a driver in one's car who can't see where he is going would outweigh the benefit of not having an overheated engine.

Perhaps a system like this could be devised?

[Tim.Wright]

Why not just make them dissolve at say 120c? Obviously they would need to stand up to any heat from the sun glaring on the visor while driving. Find that maximum amount in the hottest climates. Then make the dissolve threashold 20-30c above that mark. A very hot engine or radiator should just consume it.

Perhaps a system like this could be devised?

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God you guys like to complicate things.

If tearoffs are such a problem (and to be honest I've never heard call for them to be banned by anyone anywhere), then the logical solution is to mandate that the drivers don't throw them out of the cockpit. Simple, problem solved.

[krisfx]

Admittedly this doesn't solve the aesthetic issue, but if tearoffs are actually causing grief by blocking ducts etc, normal people manage to design systems to cope with random garbage in the airflow. One can only hope that F1 teams have performed a cost benefit analysis and found that fitting intake grids in wet weather is not worth it.

If by aesthetics you mean roll offs. I'd say that it wasn't the governing factor, teams and helmet manufacturers invest millions into making lids easier on the driver's head and more aerodynamic to stop buffeting etc, so adding those would be counter intuitive and would be probably a bit worse on the neck at 5G.

There's nothing wrong with tear offs, teams have guys who can whip them out of a radiator in a pit stop anyway so they don't need fixing!

[Scorpaguy]

Ban tear-offs?

Let's just ban F1. After all we've banned refueling, banned tire wars, banned engine development, banned chasis innovation, and banned everything else possible to assure all we have left is pretty, rich boys flying around spec tracks belonging to wealthy cartels for Bernie's carnival-atmosphere slot car race.

Good grief....why cant we just race.

[strad]

I'm with Tim..Since guys have gone to mostly doing it in pit lane, I don't remember the last time I recall a tearoff causing a real problem.

[MOWOG]

God you guys like to complicate things.

It is a shame to waste perfectly good satire on some people. Sheesh......

[Cuky]

maybe they should try retractable wipers like McLaren had tested in one of their Tooned episodes?
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