(Motorsport-Entire.com) – Today’s 22. July could be crucial, like the world championship fight in the Formula 1 season 2021 will look like. Because today the first closing date starts, in which the ten teams have to decide how they want to use their development tokens for the coming season.
The FIA had decided to change the current regulations based on the COVID – 19 – Crisis on 2021 and to homologate and freeze most of the mechanical parts of the cars. For some parts, the closing date expired at the first race, others can still be developed until September.
Within this framework, however, the teams can use two tokens to develop components beyond . This is to ensure that the teams can solve a fundamental assert that would otherwise have been on their car for two years.
The only crew that is not allowed to choose their tokens is McLaren . Due to the fixed engine change from Renault to Mercedes, the racing team has to use its tokens for the new installation of the energy unit.
Brawn : “Had to find a fair machine”
“The assertion with the freeze battle that a crew will change his engine”, says sports director Ross Brawn to ‘Motorsport-Entire.com’. “You can’t ignore that. You can’t say that they can’t change their engine. So we had to find a fair machine that included their change.”
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“We also have to recognize that some teams may have an assert in the car that they shouldn’t be living with for two years,” Brawn said. “The token machine gives them a little leeway to put it right, once they have done it wrong.”
For example, one crew said that the cooling system did not get it right – “And they couldn’t live with the cooling system for two years,” said the sports director. “By giving them a little leeway, we found a good compromise, I think.”
That’s them Components in time
The FIA had given D1, D2 and D3 three components in time, up to when certain steps for the tokens -Use must have been received.
22. July – D1: Letter of intent to the FIA with a brief explanation
August 5 – D2: Notification to the FIA about the full specification of the change
21. September – D3: Notification to the FIA with the detailed thought
If the modified component does not work as desired, a crew can go back to the original version within five races, the new part must then but write off. This is to prevent teams from switching back and forth between two variants.
Despite a disadvantage, Seidl is a friend of the rule
McLaren team boss Andreas Seidl welcomes the rule, although his crew does not get the same conditions as the others: “There is no frustration “, he says. “In the end, it was important that all teams stood together and accepted compromises so that any measures that we nodded during the crisis could apply.”
“To be honest, it is for me it is still a miracle that it worked that way, because at the beginning of the talks I would not have expected that we could come up with a common denominator. “
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“We also had to make some compromises”, Seidl continues. “But communication with the FIA about the engine installation was ultimately an open and constructive discussion. It is clear where our limits are. And now it is important to continue with the job because the schedule is very tight.”
A controversial topic is currently customer teams that use components from the previous year and these free of charge to the model of 2020 can convert without using tokens. This allows Racing Level and AlphaTauri the gear and other elements of 2020 from their partners Mercedes and Red Bull.
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