F1
Brawn wants to eradicate gray areas for 2021 regulations
The nightmare of the legislators of the Formula 1 has always been the free interpretation of the rules made by the teams. Sometimes, the mischievous minds of engineers allow them to gain an advantage over the competition even though the latter has strictly adopted the documents certified by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).
Until today, the regulations can only be changed once the season has ended. In order to experience a 2021 season free of controversy of this kind, Ross Brawn wants to strike hard. The Motor Sports director of Liberty Media (owner of F1) wants to regain control of the gray areas file.
" The governance (Sport) has been carried out for a long time between the teams, who must all agree in order to decide on a modificationn, explains the Briton on the official F1 website. We will move towards a system that allows changes to be made in a much shorter period of time than currently.
If you exploit a gray area in the future, you could be sidelined in the next race. If a team arrives with a new concept and it destroys the entire principle (of the 2021 regulations), the sport's leaders would reserve the right, with sufficient approval from the teams, to ban it. »
The straitjacket approved for 2021 provides for a capping of budgets at 175 million euros per season, simplified aerodynamics on single-seaters and restrictions on use in the wind tunnel and CFD (computer simulation). An egalitarian spirit which would go poorly with a discovery likely to jettison the competition.
According to Ross Brawn, this regulatory tightening should make it possible to avoid “the corruption of principles” decided for the 2021 overhaul. But the English engineer distinguished himself in 2009 with the genius idea of the diffuser blown onto the BrawnGP. Illegal according to opposing teams, but authorized by the FIA after a few events.
“What we don't want, and I say this with a bit of hypocrisy, is a championship won thanks to a legal loophole. »
Medhi Casaurang
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