(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.