2005.06.20 Monday
FIAからミシュランへの書簡
今度はFIAからミシュランへの返事です。
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN REPRESENTATIVES OF MICHELIN IN INDIANAPOLIS AND THE FIA FORMULA ONE RACE DIRECTORの下の部分です。
ミシュランに対してあきれはててびっくりと言っているようです。
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN REPRESENTATIVES OF MICHELIN IN INDIANAPOLIS AND THE FIA FORMULA ONE RACE DIRECTORの下の部分です。
We are very surprised that this difficulty has arisen. As you know, each team is allowed to bring two different types of tyre to an event so as to ensure that a back-up (usually of lower performance) is available should problems occur. It is hard to understand why you have not supplied your teams with such a tyre given your years of experience at Indianapolis.
ミシュランに対してあきれはててびっくりと言っているようです。
That the teams you supply are not in possession of such a tyre will also be a matter for the FIA to consider in due course under Article 151c of the International Sporting Code.
151cというのは詐欺的行為は違反とみなすという規則です。ミシュランは安全じゃないという理屈で有利な条件を手に入れようとしていると考えられるということを言っているように思えます。
No doubt you will inform your teams what is the maximum safe speed for their cars in Turn 13. We will remind them of the need to follow your advice for safety reasons. We will also ask them to ensure their cars do not obstruct other competitors.
ミシュランユーザーにブリヂストンユーザーの邪魔にならないように13コーナーをゆっくり走るようにさせろということですね。
Some of the teams have raised with us the possibility of running a tyre which was not used in qualifying. We have told them this would be a breach of the rules to be considered by the stewards. We believe the penalty would not be exclusion but would have to be heavy enough to ensure that no team was tempted to use qualifying tyres in the future.
レースで予選と違うタイヤを使いたいというチームがあったけど、そんなことしたら2度とこんなことしたくないと思うくらいのペナルティを課すよと伝えたということのようです。どうも正当でないタイヤ交換をした場合のペナルティは定められていなかったようです。これも問題を複雑にした理由かもしれません。
Another possibility would be for the relevant teams repeatedly to change the affected tyre during the race (we understand you have told your teams the left rear is safe for a maximum of ten laps at full speed). If the technical delegate and the stewards were satisfied that each change was made because the tyre would otherwise fail (thus for genuine safety reasons) and that the relevant team were not gaining an advantage, there would be no penalty. If this meant using tyres additional to a teams’ allocation, the stewards would consider all the circumstances in deciding what penalty, if any, to apply.
実際にタイヤがおかしくなってから、その都度タイヤ交換をするんであれば違反じゃないよと代替案を出しています。そんなにタイヤがあるのかは疑問ですが。
Finally, it has been suggested that a chicane should be laid out in Turn 13. I am sure you will appreciate that this is out of the question. To change the course in order to help some of the teams with a performance problem caused by their failure to bring suitable equipment to the race would be a breach of the rules and grossly unfair to those teams which have come to Indianapolis with the correct tyres.
13コーナーへのシケイン追加なんてお話にならないと却下しています。
さて、次はもう一度ミシュランからの書簡です。