FIA monitors F1 cornering performance
The FIA is concerned about increased F1 cornering speeds resulting from the current 'tyre war' and would be ready to act if the teams failed to reach unanimous agreement within the F1 Technical Working Group on a method of reducing performance in high-speed turns. FIA president Max Mosley told the Reuters news agency: "We're looking very carefully at possibly using powers that we have under the Concorde Agreement to reduce performance."
Any short-notice change to the F1 Technical Regulations must be approved by all the teams, unless the FIA is able to make a case based on safety.
Mosley continued: "If we conclude that the cars are too fast, then we can give notice to the teams under the Concorde Agreement which requires the Technical Working Group to come up with proposals for slowing them. And they have to do that within a limited time. If they don't come up with the proposals, we have the right to impose something. We can give the Technical Working Group three alternative packages of measures and they have to choose one of the three.
"It may be that we're worrying unnecessarily, but it's all starting to look as though maybe we have to do something. A lot of the teams have given us very accurate data. We can compare speeds quite accurately, particularly in the high-speed corners, with a year ago."
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