2022 Aerodynamic Regulations Thread

[peewon]

What can FIA do? the teams blocked all efforts

teams are not in making racing interesting, at the moment their valuations are sky high, nothing matters.

Whatever they want. They have all the authority over the rules. Why do they even care about team support?

Because teams have enormous political and financial power. I dont think being an FIA official is a career by itself for many people. Its a revolving door with incestuous relations with the industry. For example, TIm Mayer was an FIA steward, while also being involved with a consultancy with many teams like Mercedes and Red Bull as clients. Big teams also have enormous influence over media.

[mzso]

What can FIA do? the teams blocked all efforts

teams are not in making racing interesting, at the moment their valuations are sky high, nothing matters.

Whatever they want. They have all the authority over the rules. Why do they even care about team support?

Because teams have enormous political and financial power. I dont think being an FIA official is a career by itself for many people. Its a revolving door with incestuous relations with the industry. For example, TIm Mayer was an FIA steward, while also being involved with a consultancy with many teams like Mercedes and Red Bull as clients. Big teams also have enormous influence over media.

It wasn't an issue in the examples I mentioned off the top of my head. And they marketed this ruleset to oblivion, so they should have followed up on it to not like fools. But I guess being great big fools is an FIA trademark.

They have an extremely corrupt leader, who consolidated all the power, but wouldn't use it for anything useful...

[TeamKoolGreen]

Funny how the venturi floor got all the blame for the stiff ride of the 2022 era cars when they also banned ride control the same year. And they took away the 13 inch wheels and replaced them with 18 inch low profile tires. And everyone knew this would make the car more stiff in all situations. But the venturi floor got all the blame anyway.

[FittingMechanics]

They can make the cars less stiff, this is not an issue, they have springs and dampers, it's easy to change.

Reason venturi floors are blamed for it is because their aerodynamics work absolutely the best if the car is super stiff and constantly at the same ride height above the track. This is not the case if you generate your downforce by your wings - with them the dropoff is no where near as large as with the venturi floors.

So, venturi floors are not making the car stiff, engineers are making the car stiff so venturi floor works the best (and it has to).