Why ban tyre warmers?

[Super Tourer]

Tyre warmers were banned on a cost-saving basis.

I pointed out to TOCA that this was an entirely pointless saving as virually all the teams that were going to be in the ST class already had tyre warmers from the '99 season.

All the band achieved was to leave them with a load of useless kit, that would have to be written off after one year as opposed to a longer period.

As a safety issue some it is debateable as tyre warmers are not used in any other TOCA support races. I guess driving on cold tyes is supposed to be the drivers art - have we seen anymore incidents since JT's BH shunt?

Personally from competition point of view I see no problem in banning tyre warmers, from a commercial point of view (which is the reason the decision was made), it didn't make any sense to me.