Umbrella organization FIA there is still a good month left to be confirmed and accepted new policy for the summer 2021. Until the end of October, there will be more talk about financial, sports in technical vistas. It is now FIA suggested new system, which proposes or represents an alternative standardized part in season 2021 and that is "Open Source“. That means making teams your own designs for individual parts uploaded to the website FIA, and all other competitors would have access to these plans or files. This could be reduced number of standardized parts, and on top of that, the teams would also save.
Teams they are not enthusiastic about the standard parts of racing cars, because these parts limit them at development work. In addition, purchased items are often viewed with concern, especially as far as it is concerned performance, reliability also heavier. The idea of a variant Open Source would anticipate that teams would continue to shape their parts themselves, but plans and designs these elements would be shared with others. That pooling knowledge could lower development costs and make it easier for new teams to enter Formula 1.
Competitors you might want to consider whether to gain plans of other teams and even develop these parts further. For new teams however, this means that they do not have to start from scratch. "The FIA has proposed such a system of Open-Source parts," he confirmed Andrew Green, technical team leader Racing Pointwho is enthusiastic about this idea. “Teams would post their designs on the FIA website and everyone else could see what they could use and choose what they needed." British emphasizes that each team strives for the most efficient design and hopes that this idea will continue to be followed.
Green is still convinced that this could save on costsand increased at the same time performance race car. After all, it will be the standard weight of a race car in flight 2021 increased by about 30 kilograms - also because of 18 inch wheels and potential safety measures following a tragic accident by a young person Anthoine Hubert. In addition, you could use this method preventedto make all race cars look the same external image. This criticism was constantly used by the teams in their own criticism against standardized works.
Variant Open Source could cover most of the elements that were in the plan to them FIA standardizes. “There are many small systems in the car that could be improved together,”He believes Green and lists any areas: "Wheels, power steering, Brake-by-Wire system or fuel system."
