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Rain guard test to be conducted at Silverstone (racer.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ThiccSemperTyrannis@lemmy.world to c/formula1@lemmy.world

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Hi everyone! Thank you all for participating! Another media source has posted an article with some more information on this topic. The actual relevant bit starts about halfway through.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/the-silverstone-test-that-could-save-driver-lives-and-tracks-from-layout-changes/10491716/

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[–] fluke@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Actually it would be interesting if it was something that was directly related to the wet weather tyres.

So they come already attached to the wheels as a spec part and not permanently attached to the car.

I would argue that the set up of the car is affected anyway when putting on wets due to the increase of ride height and such. And with the corner speeds being slower it likely wouldn't cause that much of an issue.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

I'd imagine having the guards would have some performance penalty and so that might get factored in when teams are deciding whether to switch between full wets and inters - we might see teams switching to inters sooner.

From an entertaining and strategy perspective this might be really interesting.

[–] ThiccSemperTyrannis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I imagine that it will be in the sporting regs that the two must be used at the same time and may not be used separately, although having the whole assembly as one piece may be tricky (I would love to see that done though). We'll know next week what the FIA and Mercedes have in mind though.