🗣️'We now have to drive around to warm up the tyres - how much extra pollution will those five minutes cause?' Jim Glickenhaus has voiced his scepticism at the WEC's decision to ban tyre warmers for the 2023 season on environmental grounds ⬇️
Last December, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and the FIA announced that tyre warmers would be scrapped from both the WEC and European Le Mans Series this year in a move"designed to reduce the teams’ environmental impact".
"I think it’s important to know how much energy not having tyre warmers will save versus increasing the qualifying time from 10 minutes to 15 minutes," said Glickenhaus in an online press call organised by the WEC. "But I do think that we can’t just take [untested] solutions and just say, ‘we are being more green by not using tyre warmers’.
"You can crash the car on cold tyres; you can do it with heated tyres too," he said."I think it’s [about] the management of the team and how they handle it. We also like very much setting the challenge to our drivers and engineers to handle these situations.
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