In the new year the factory LMP1 team limit in the amount of aerodynamic packages — only three per season. And this is just the beginning, because, since 2017, the number of packets will be reduced to two (as it was in 2014).
At the same time, Pascal Vasselon, technical director of Toyota Motorsport GmbH, is pleased to commenting on new vaccinated, stressed that the prohibition applies to the basic elements of the body, such as the wheel arches and bonnet, but no limits in the development of secondary elements, for example, sending and flap.
Alex Hittsinger, Team Porsche LMP1, pragmatic attitude to innovation: «The new rules will come into effect at the same time limiting the time that each team can spend on the tests in the wind tunnel during the year. In 2016 manufacturers will be able to use the tube no more than 1,200 hours per year, and in 2017 no more than 800 hours.... At the same time, the organizers of WEC decided not to follow the path of „Formula 1“ and is not limited to manufacturers using computational fluid dynamics data. »
«Aerodynamic» prohibitions entail, and another measure — budget cuts manufacturers. Such an agreement is also reached at the recent World Council of the FIA Motorsport. This will give the teams the opportunity to focus on the balance of the machine settings on different routes.
It remains only to recall that the younger category WEC GTE does not yet have the status of the World Cup, it played the World Cup.
