What! You can't change D/F levels after the FP sessions?
You can't change the car configuration - so the wing spec you run in the race has to be the same as scrutineering. You can change flap angles and try out different wings in practice but have to put on the scrutineering spec for parc ferme and beyond.
That does make sense, with a budget cap, to remove the ‘test-session’ element of free-practice.
That's pretty silly in my opinion. The teams should be allowed to alter D/F levels (change rear wing specs) up until the cars leave the garage for Q1.
With a budge cap, it should be up to the teams to manage their budgets as they see fit.Stu wrote: ↑20 Feb 2022, 12:49That does make sense, with a budget cap, to remove the ‘test-session’ element of free-practice.
Calculation, correlation, race.
They can. Parc ferme begins once the cars leave the pits in Q1.OO7 wrote: ↑20 Feb 2022, 12:51That's pretty silly in my opinion. The teams should be allowed to alter D/F levels (change rear wing specs) up until the cars leave the garage for Q1.
Most teams can adjust the top two flaps or top flap without changing the wing.
I can't find it either.Tzk wrote: ↑20 Feb 2022, 12:56Where exactly is this stated? I had a look at the latest revision of the sporting regulations and found nothing obvious which bans wing changes before Q or sprint starts. Am i missing something?
I had a look at these:
https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files ... -02-18.pdf
31.5 The bodywork (excluding radiators) of each car as presented for initial scrutineering will establish the Reference Specification and, with the exception of work permitted by Articles 5.4.2 j and v to x, the car must be returned to this specification before the start of P3. The procedure to establish conformity with this article is described in the Appendix to the Technical and Sporting Regulations.
Keels are aerodynamically inferior to joining the suspension to the sides of the tub high up - I don't think the rules prohibit a keel but it might be hard in the rule boxes...west52keep64 wrote: ↑20 Feb 2022, 16:21Do the regs permit a suspension keel? The volumes for bodywork would make it difficult, but could the keel be classed as part of the suspension arms?
Alternatively, could the front suspension arms connect to the splitter? Specifically the rear leg of the lower arms?