The FIA's Plans for Downforce Limitation and More Overtaking
One of Max Mosley's primary crusades for 2008 and beyond, is controlling downforce through quantity rather than by bodywork dimensions. The FIA president envisions post-race scrutineerings that include placing weights on the car and checking whether its underbody touches the ground. It sounds so primitive, yet so brilliantly simple. But can it really be foolproof?
One of the most interesting elements of Max Mosley's Monza press conference was the FIA's plan to limit F1 downforce to around 50% of current levels, through quantity rather than by fixing bodywork dimensions from 2008.
"In other words," Mosley said, "we are going to say that the car must never have more than N thousand Newtons of downforce in any circumstances. You can work on the drag but you can't exceed that downforce."
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