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RE: Technical Infringements
(02-09-2015, 09:03 AM)simonk Wrote: makes sense, there have been a few fires in pit lane of recent years
But none of them have been caused by mobile phones.
At the end of the day, a regulation is there to be followed, but we live in an age where the mobile phone is used as a device for exchanging and gathering information. The organisers themselves use, and promote that same facility.
However, using electronic smoking items in pit lane is plain bonkers.
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RE: Technical Infringements
(01-09-2015, 01:25 PM)c iom tt Wrote: The old chestnut/theory of mobile phones causing explosions in petrol stations, yet there has never been a record of of it ever happening?
The only reason mobile phones were banned from filling station forecourts was.. the pumps were radio controlled by the consoul in the shop and if a phone went off as you were using the pump the connection between the pump and consoul was lost... Funny you can now use a mobile device at a fuel pump to pay for your fuel now...???
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RE: Technical Infringements
(02-09-2015, 05:04 PM)warrior Wrote: The regulations I referred to are not the event regulations, the organisers are bound by the Petroleum Regulations, as pit lane is effectively classed as a filling station forecourt during races.
You can stand at the edge of a filling station forecourt smoking and chatting on the phone but not within the forecourt itself, it's the same situation for pit lane.
The chances of a phone causing a problem are probably remote, but even if the organisers wanted to allow them, until such time as the law is changed their hands are tied. If they bound by the Petroleum Regulations in the pits, then they are a bit late in enforcing them. I also doult that it is either a regulation, or a law that you cant use a mobile on a Petrol forecourt, and as has been pointed out in a previous post, you can now pay for petrol at the pump using a mobile phone, and... you have been able to do so long before the organisers said you cant use them in pit lane!
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RE: Technical Infringements
(02-09-2015, 04:59 PM)canamant Wrote: I have no problem with not having a mobile phone in the pit lane, but the schoreboard should be replaced or at least superseded with big screens thatgive all info to pit crew so we know when our man is where.. our light didn, t come on and it is frustrating and worrying when you dont know the picture. The big LED screen will come and replace the old scoreboard. The reasons they will give is A, the old board is no longer structualy safe, and B it is to remove the Scouts from being in a dangerous area.
The real reason however, is they will be able to sell advertising space during the races and practice on it, thus increasing the revenue and making it more financialy attractive to the new promotor.
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