The 2016 Australian comp is going to be held 8th - 11th of December 2016.
Although ECU isn't attending this years competition we are still going to be watching closely due to it being our home competition and all.
After a student committee meeting a few days ago SAE-A raised a few points about the competition which I thought I'd share here and get everyone's opinions.
At the competition there will be no or minimal marshal's on the track during such events as AutoX or Endurance to pick up hit cones or stricken cars, this is to ensure the maximum protection and safety of marshalls which is an understandable argument.
In turn a solution has been proposed that cones will not be used but tyres will be. They will NOT be used on the apexs of corners.
This gets more interesting as cones will be used in braking run off points and if one of these cones are hit a safety car will be deployed under yellow or red flags.
I must stress these ideas are all proposals and SAE-A have done a fantastic job starting a Student Committee who are involved (or at least informed) with
some of the decisions and I am sure they are being strong-armed by the insurer for the event.