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Originally Posted by mountainstar
If you do it for one, you need to do it for everyone.
What happens if that chassis gets clobbered and is not repairable? Or if you have a driver that runs over everything in sight or gets hit by james courtney every weekend and it's "repairable" but by the end of the season looks like the station wagon that ran over a cliff in National Lampoons Vacation? What do you do then? What if you have a rule that if a chassis gets written off, you can replace it with a new one, then teams are finding ways to write off cars so they can be replaced?
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Fair point, make it for everyone then. As for if they crash them hard enough, well, the team can go back to a previous chassis, which has to be the last one they used.
Since they're considering going down the NASCAR path of a COT type chassis, then they might as well introduce the chassis registration and checking system that NASCAR have at the tech centre. That means each chassis is tagged with ID chips, or DataDOT's by VE$A to keep a track of that chassis. I think copying this system that NASCAR has developed, will help keep track of chassis. Just look at the system that the Ward's have on there ARC chassis, where the parts are marked with DataDOT's to make sure no one is doing modifications or tampering with parts/piece's.
As for writing off chassis's to try and introduce another one. Each team would have specifically justify that the chassis is beyond repair. If it happens on a race weekend, the obvious investigation would take place at the track. If on the other hand something happens like Seton's crash at Phillip Island during testing about 9 years or so ago, then the team would have to explain how it happened and why they should be allowed.
This rule would include any flex in the frame, if it still happens, but that would be governed by introducing a rule stating that it is beyond 'x' millimeters.
End of the day, all I'm suggesting is eliminating the introduction of multiple new chassis's through the year. Which might gain the team a ten or thousandths of a second, but is it really worth $600k in panels, tube, parts and man hour's.