Red Bull's motorsport advisor, Dr Helmut Marko, has said the team did apply "pressure" to get the 'party mode' engine setting banned by the FIA. read more »
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Toto Wolff has revealed that, before in-season testing was banned, Mercedes was planning on taking their 2018 car to Portimao. read more »
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During the cut-and-thrust of the Spanish Grand Prix build-up, it emerged that the FIA and Formula 1 was planning to mandate just a single engine mode per race weekend read more »
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The steering wheel has been an integral part of F1 cars since... well, before F1 cars. But that doesn't mean they can't be improved upon; just compare 50s steering... read more »
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Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko wants telemetry and radios banned in Formula 1 because everything is determined by engineers. read more »
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McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl believes Mercedes will remain the "benchmark" in the current era, even if their "party mode" is banned. read more »
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F1 has announced that for the Belgian GP, it will be banning the infamous "party mode", otherwise known as qualifying mode. This means that the teams will have to use... read more »
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From 2009 all the way up until 2014 the F1 grid was home to a diffuser arms race, in the hopes of increasing rear end downforce. Once the infamous double diffuser was banned,... read more »
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High-performance 'qualifying mode' F1 engine settings originally developed by Mercedes could be outlawed from the Belgian Grand Prix. read more »
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"Party mode" could be the next Mercedes weapon to disappear with FIA considering banning 'qualifying mode' engine settings. read more »
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Formula 2 driver Dan Ticktum believes his form in the championship this year acts as an answer to "doubters" as he chases a seat in Formula 1. Ticktum, who was banned... read more »
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Throughout F1's History we've seen many innovations come and go, more often than not through ingenious loopholes being found in the regulations. One of the best... read more »
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Mercedes technical director James Allison says the team are continuing to develop DAS, even though it will be banned from 2021. read more »
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Mercedes will continue to work on the development of its innovative dual-axis steering (DAS) system despite being banned for 2021, saying it is "not a closed book" read more »
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Steering is an area of the car where engineers have tried to probe the limits, with various solutions having been tried - and many of these subsequently getting banned. Here we... read more »
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F1 teams are awfully innovative when it comes to giving their cars the upper hand, which normally leads to two ideas from their rivals - "Can we copy it?" and... read more »
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Formula 1's engineers are at their most ingenious when sidestepping the regulations to find performance - and, in this case, defying load tests to improve the car... read more »
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Since the early days of F1, teams have strived to push their cars to the limits by improving their aerodynamics, often by adding new components. But sometimes, these new parts... read more »
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After an attempted ban on exhaust-blown diffusers for 2012, Formula 1 teams rocked up to the season opener with a workaround solution to get the same effect - the Coanda... read more »
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In the latest edition of the 'Banned' series, Formula 1's relationship with the exhaust-blown diffuser is explored read more »
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In the latest edition of the 'Banned' series, after a slew of protests over the legality of double diffusers in early 2009, the FIA declared that they would be... read more »
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In the latest edition of the 'Banned' series, Autosport looks back at some of the attempts made by Formula 1 teams to work around the minimum weight rules read more »
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Following a series of incidents in the final few laps of the IndyCar iRacing Challenge last Sunday, talk in the sim racing world has been fierce on what consequences the... read more »
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The 'mass damper' adopted by Renault for its 2005 R25 Formula 1 car was a stability aid that improved front-end downforce before it was outlawed by the FIA read more »
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At the start of the drag reduction system's tenure in Formula 1, multiple teams attempted to double its fun with novel and complex solutions. Mercedes' version... read more »
