Ferrari's James Calado has questioned WEC's ban on tyre warmers after his crash straight out of pits in the Sebring Prologue.
Ferrari driver James Calado has questioned the ban on tyre warmers for this year’s World Endurance Championship in the wake of his accident in last weekend’s pre-season Prologue test.The Briton confirmed that cold tyres were implicated in his shunt at the Turn 1 left-hander at the Sebring International Raceway on the morning of the second day of the test aboard the #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar.
Calado stressed that the problem is only going to get worse when the WEC moves to Europe and the drivers face colder conditions than at Sebring. “I dread to think what might happen; the speed differential into the corner between a car with a few hundred metres to warm up the tyres after coming out of the pits and a car at full speed is going to be enormous.”The ban on pre-heating tyres has been introduced by the FIA on environmental grounds; tyres were previously placed in ovens powered by diesel heaters.“We don’t need the tyres at full temp like in the past,” he explained.
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