[neniajany]

Even though I agree that the safety aspects of re-fueling were an ever present danger, I have a couple of issues with the removal of refueling.

Firstly I cannot get my head around pit assisted fuel management. I see that engineers giving instructions to the driver for engine settings as a driver aid pure and simple. Since refueling has been banned in the modern era, I cannot recall a single car that has run out of fuel during the race. That statistic to me is ridiculous in the extreme and an indication of how artificial the fuel environment is.

Secondly, the idea that a car can start a race with less fuel than is required to finish is simply crazy. To me that is not racing, its an economy run. I have posted before that bonus points could be awarded for fuel remaining in a tank at the end of a race but the current practice of starting with insufficient fuel is just wrong when coupled with computer aided fuel management.

Re-fueling has dangers but those dangers can be, and need to be, managed. Penalties seem to be handed out for anything and everything these days so refueling incidents would be handled far more seriously. Obviously they weren't handled seriously enough in the past if the powers that be decided that the only way to make fuel stops safe was to remove them.

The decision not to use flywheel based KERS systems appeared to me to show that the environment is not driving anyone's agenda so get refueling back and start burning fuel like F1 is supposed to. Fuel weight is its own penalty. Carry as little as is needed, as often as is needed, to get the car around the track as quickly as possible.

Its motorsport for crying out loud...