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[QUOTE="Matthew Little, post: 21311, member: 208"]
This is one of those "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" situations Indycar racing has faced over the years..............
---On the one hand, there really ain't much they can do; the fuel setting controls are no longer available, meaning you're either full rich OR full lean. In addition, the stewards tell the drivers if they're about to run out of fuel, get to the apron or stay as low as possible as you're slowing and get to pitlane. For the drivers on the ovals, there's not much they can do to save fuel(lift on some ovals, like Texas.........and you'll get run over in an instant) other than draft or up-shift to keep the engine from rev-limiting(which ironically can burn more fuel than when its' w/in the power-band).............
---On the other hand, Blundell's "minimum fuel amount" suggestion, if I read it correctly, sounds..........dumb(I'm being polite when I say that; my first thought was WTH are you smoking, Blundell?). Fuel strategy has and will always play a role in racing(regardless of whether on ovals or road/street courses); what's next, mandating pit-stop windows, Mark?(News flash, Blundell...........CART/ChampCar tried that for 2 years.......it didn't work if I recall correctly).

FWIW, from what Hunter-Reay has said about the accident and from what I've read about the accident, he was trying to get to the apron 'cause he was running out of fuel and Conway just caught him at the absolute worst part of the track(couple hundred more feet down the track, in the chute btwn. 3 and 4 and odds are RHR gets out of Conway's way and the accident doesn't occur..........).  :o  :o  :o  :o  :o
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