Nehän siirsi katseensa jo joku aika sitten vuoden -25 autoon ja Nevey sanoi jo joskus viimevuonna, että aika vaikeeta tulee muilla olemaan kiinni saaminen tulevalla kaudella, ni todennäkösesti voivat keskittyä -26 autoonkin jo ties missä kohtaa
Formula 1
HOW F1'S AERO DEVELOPMENT BAN FOR 2026 CARS WILL WORK
Dec 14, 2023
by Scott Mitchell-Malm
5 min read
The ban on teams developing the main areas of their 2026 Formula 1 cars until the start of 2025 has been enshrined in the regulations through further windtunnel and CFD restrictions.
After the F1 Commission agreed that “no work may be carried out on the development of a car” for 2026 before January 1, 2025, the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council has ratified rule changes to police that.
https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/2026-development-ban-among-f1-changes/
As expected, this is done by specifying limitations to restricted windtunnel testing and CFD simulations - essentially the same restriction invoked for the current generation of cars, when the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted the plan for new rules in 2021 and efforts were made to manage costs for the 12-month delay to the introduction of the new rules to 2022.
From December 1 of this year until January 1 2025, the only windtunnel work permitted is using a scale model that “substantially complied with the 2023, 2024 or 2025 technical regulations”.
Dyno testing aimed to develop brake system components “with minimal air ducting” can be carried out, as long as that does not test “or in any way provide incidental data or knowledge on” the performance or endurances of bodywork.
It is a similar story in terms of preventing CFD simulations, with the same December 1 2023 to January 1 2025 timeframe only permitting CFD work using geometries that “substantially comply with the 2021-25 technical regulations”.
Similarly, the “sole purpose of the development of the brake system components and associated test rigs” is the only exception.
