Mercedes and Aston Martin tech innovations outlawed by FIA for F1 2023
A Mercedes front-wing endplate design and Aston Martin’s "unusual" rear-wing concept - the latter of which was first introduced at the Hungarian Grand Prix - have both been banned under the F1 technical regulations for next season.
While they complied with the regulations and were deemed legal by the FIA, both designs caused a stir because they appea🅘red to contradict the key intention of making F1’s new era of ca🐠rs easier to follow.
Speaking at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the FIA’s head of single-sea🔯ters Nikolas Tombazis said: “Obviously this year they were both legal. The regulations h𒅌ave changed on both the front and the rear in different ways to stop those solutions.”
He continuไed: "Some of these things where we changed the rules are in that category.
"But that article [3.2] wasn't intended that: 'Okay, if you're smart and you have a solution, we're going to take it off the cꦑar immediately.' It just gave an explanation about sometimes wh♔y we have to intervene with the regulations.
"But we've still done it via governance. We don't have the rightಞ to just say: 'w⛦e don't like this, let's ban it.'"
Asked if there was anything he wanted to change in the regulations, F1 chief technical of🍨ficer Pat Symonds said: "No I don't think so, I think we need to let them develop.
"There are a few little tweaks, we saw that unusual rear wing on the Aston Martin earlier in the year and the regulations have been tweaked to not allow that next year because it had the potential to go i🌟n the wrong direction.
"But overall, I am pretty pleased with it.”
Symonds also confirmed further tweaks to the floor area will be made to combat the issues caused by168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: porpoising, a phenomenon🌄 which returned to F1 this season and dominated the headlines early in the year.
“There are some small changes to the floor next year, not to try to eliminate but to reduce the amount of bou⛦ncing we are getting on the cars, but no, we have really got to ꧒consolidate now," he added.
“It would be wrong to do a lot of changes."
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