FIA General News and Discussion

[Mothers Worry]

The FIA has moved to ban the reactive ride-height systems which regulate the ride-height through the brake torque which is linked to the suspension, hydraulics then adjust the ride-height under braking and acceleration.

[Ian G.]

I've been following this the last Month or so and was wondering how they got around the regulations as this type of thing has been banned for 20 years,obviously they haven't.

[Jiji_the_cat]

i think renault (lotus) created a red herring to throw off the other teams.

[Mothers Worry]

The FIA has ruled that the Mercedes rear-wing F-duct totally legal after rival teams asked the governing body to look into the system.

McL is running a completely passive F-duct via the rear-wing whenever the drag-reduction-system is activated, giving a top-speed boost of around 6-8km/h by further stalling the air. The original F-duct was seen in 2010 when McLaren innovated the simple but effective system which was activated by the driver. However the FIA banned such system after the majority of the grid quickly copied them, because of the dangers associated with drivers using one hand to direct the airflow.