2011 rules not final yet - a big mess ahead

Scuderia980 · Jan 13, 2011

just been catching up with F1, and this was one of the things that had me thinking.."HUH?" how the heck are they gonna wring out this one regulation? good that this thread upped! lots of if's and what's..

VIZSLA · Jan 13, 2011

Will there be any on track testing of this before the first race?
If so how does it jibe with the team test restrictions?

SRT Mike · Jan 13, 2011

All of these ideas they come up with sound good in theory (KERS anyone?), but in practice, nobody has the foresight to see all permutations of how it may play out on the track.

I have no idea how the "push to pass" button will work out, but I am pretty sure it won't be all roses. I will be very surprised if it remains after 1 or 2 seasons.

I'm all for anything that improves passing, but I don't think these gimmicks really help. To me, it sort of smacks of artifically wet tracks or reversed order. It gives an unearned advantage to the guy behind over the guy in front who earned that spot.

We shall see.

Fast_ian · Jan 13, 2011

Lifted from Autosport:

McLaren engineering director Paddy Lowe is confident that the FIA will get a full grip of the moveable rear wing rules in 2011 to ensure the concept works well for the sport.

Although there has been some concern expressed that the new wing idea will fail - either by not improving overtaking or making passing too easy so it is no longer exciting Lowe is more upbeat about the plans.

Speaking on a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes phone-in, Lowe said he believed the rear wing design would work better than the failed front wing concept.

"Yes, I certainly do - it has a lot more leverage," he said. "On the front wing adjustment, that was introduced along with the OWG (Overtaking Working Group) regulations in 2009, and it was really only intended as a mild adjustment in order for the driver to trim the balance of the car when in the wake and attempting to overtake another car.

"I was a member of the OWG and we actually put it in there as an insurance policy as we were all a bit worried that we'd got it wrong and the car would be very unbalanced in the wake and possibly have oversteer.

"As it turned out, nobody really used the front wing for that purpose at all. So we all agreed last year that we would get rid of it in the interests of simplicity and cost saving. It will add a bit more of a challenge in the race in terms of balance because now we will have to make any front wing adjustments in the pit stops."

Although teams have a lot of work to do pre-season to tweak the rear wing regulations, and the FIA has to sort sporting rules out for their implementation, Lowe was confident it would not take too long to get the tweaks right.

"The one control that the FIA have is that at each race circuit they can set the deployment point on the straight at which you're allowed to press the button - for instance you might be allowed to press it for the last 300 metres of the straight to the braking point," he said.

"The FIA have it in their power to limit the situation so that the authority of the system is making sense, and that may take one or two races to settle down. But they can lengthen or shorten that amount of straight on a race by race basis. So I think that will give some ability to make the thing work in the way that we intended."
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So there we have it......

Cheers,
Ian

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