The International Automobile Federation (FIA) decided to act to put an end to possible “traps” that some teams would be doing in the tournament, linked to the flexibility of the wings, after 14 days the start of the world championship of the Formula 1.
The regulatory body will pay great attention to compliance with the regulations on this issue, the specialized media reported. motorsport and autosportwhich also added that the teams were notified by sending document TD018.
“The FIA states that it believes the teams are exploiting purpose-designed, localized zones of conformance in addition to some “relative motion between adjacent components” to obtain a significant increase in aerodynamic performance,” the document said.
To formalize its suspicions, the entity will be governed by article 3.2.2 of the Technical Regulations of the F1which establishes that all the accessories that can influence the aerodynamic load directly or indirectly must be “rigidly fixed and immobile with respect to their frame of reference defined in article 3.3 (…) These components must produce a surface uniform, solid, hard, continuous and impermeable”.
The suspicion of the FIA
Since the start of the season, the FIA He believes that the teams have been playing with the limits, using sophisticated systems to rotate and flex the front and rear wings, as well as using tricks to successfully pass the load tests. As a result of these suspicions, the controls will be tightened and it will be in the next Italian GP at Monzawhere some will use their ailerons for the last time.
From Singapore GP On the weekend of September 15, it will be possible to see how influential the FIA decision was, as the teams will have until September 8 to deliver the assembly plans for their vehicles, emphasizing how their rear wings are built. and forwards.
The one who recently spoke on this point was the experienced Spanish pilot Fernando Alonsowhose team (Aston-Martin) He was one of the first affected, having to change the composition of his wing before: “I am not in favor of changing the front wings in the middle of the year because if a car starts with some flex, why do you have to stiffen in the middle of the year? Those fins or something?”
“If a component is not legal, It shouldn’t be for the first ten races of the season.”he considered, referring to the fact that they should have worked on this point before the start of the championship or at the end and not in the middle.
Source: Ambito
I am Pierce Boyd, a driven and ambitious professional working in the news industry. I have been writing for 24 Hours Worlds for over five years, specializing in sports section coverage. During my tenure at the publication, I have built an impressive portfolio of articles that has earned me a reputation as an experienced journalist and content creator.
