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Re:F1 2014: All aboard the 'power train' - new rules explained by masklinn on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @07:06AM (#6839780)
> Refueling is not allowed in Formula 1, it has only been allowed during two brief stints in the early 1980s and late 1990s.

Brief? It was allowed from 1994 to 2009, and the official reason for removing it in 2010 was team expenses (they had to move expensive speed-refueling machinery around the world, and highly trained pit staff to match)

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Re:F1 2014: All aboard the 'power train' - new rules explained by exDM69 on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @07:43AM (#6839895)
Brief in the sense that for most of the history of F1, refueling has not been allowed.
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Re:F1 2014: All aboard the 'power train' - new rules explained by jackgavigan on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @08:32AM (#6840087)
That's not strictly true. Refuelling was allowed (or, more accurately, it wasn't banned) from 1950 (the first F1 world championship) thru 1983. Fangio did a deliberate pitstop during his famous win at the Nürburgring in 1957 [1].

However, it appears that it wasn't until 1983 that a team (Brabham) deliberately built a car with a tank too small to hold enough fuel to finish a race [2]. Brabham went on to win the 1983 championship and refuelling was banned from 1984.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_German_Grand_Prix [2]: http://www.formula1-dictionary.net/refueling.html

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Re:F1 2014: All aboard the 'power train' - new rules explained by masklinn on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @08:33AM (#6840093)
Refueling was only banned in 1984, it was allowed before that.

So using the historical argument, it's the refueling ban whose stint has been brief (1984 - 1993, and 2010 - ?)

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Re:F1 2014: All aboard the 'power train' - new rules explained by bronson on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @04:39PM (#6843384)
Sounds like a disagreement over whether one is referring to the act of refueling or the refueling rule.

Both mid-race refueling and the refueling rule have had brief stints.

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