Bojan Vrbnjak
FIA in FOM think seriously because the last stage of development race cars Formula 1 for 2021 is already almost like the last word. On opposition of large teamswho would prefer to stay the way he is FIA does not intend to look. “Not much will change here,”Are confident in the teams McLaren, Renault in Racing Point. The President FIA Jean Todt however, he confirmed that the changes will only exist in details.
Maybe it will however, something else changed. Because at the last meeting with technical directors, je FIA laid on the table the proposal, which was rejected two years ago. A case of active aerodynamicsto replace DRS system and with that also overtaking problem - of course if the aerodynamics planned by the FIA missed her goal. Currently, a new concept is working. Some teams are a model 2021 already tested with CFD simulation. The turbulence behind the race car has really taken off reduced to the planned level. But after minor fixes, it is in development it got worse again.
All of these obviously don’t help here restrictions in the field of aerodynamics, which engineers are currently complaining about. “The car is divided into 50 smaller drawers of legality and here you don't have much chance to escape beyond that,He says anxiously Andy green, technical team leader Racing Point. His colleague Marcin budkowski from the team Renault but has a different opinion: "Currently, the racer has another 90 percent of the vacuum behind the competitor. But that will change with each further development. Whether it will be only 50 percent again, as is the case now, no one can say today."
Obviously concern government also at experts from the FIA. Because of this, they put in the conversation active aerodynamicsto be ready for the most urgent case. And what is it anyway active aerodynamics? A racer could by pressing the wing button set so that it could also be in turbulence vehicles with vacuum, which the car has without interference. This could also be achieved with side pull-out flaps, which would be under the car increase the suction effect. Vacuum equalization however, it can activates only thenwhen the racer is in predetermined area behind another race car.
But you wouldn't need it anymore DRS system. A rear-racing racer could in every turn approached the competitor in front of him and put him on plane from the wind also overtook. FIA could then waived its restrictionsbecause her goal would be to be a racer makes it easier to drive behind a competitor, met. But this one narrow concept of aerodynamics another goal follows and that is greater uniformity of the Formula 1 field. If they release aerodynamics, then that goal they will not achieve. Renault I would have no problem with that: "As engineers, of course, we want more freedoms. But as a team, we stand behind the plan to achieve greater equality between teams,He added Budkowski.
