Formula One: Testing Ban?
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Isn't there an in-season testing ban in F1? What makes the "straight line test" Red Bull and Toro Rosso will soon be conducting allowable? Seems sketchy to me. And if it's just straight line, why do they need to pull Vettel from a previous engagement to perform it??!
This question has come up before , their is a loophole in the regulations which allows for a limited number of straight run tests in order to evaluate aero. How you define limited I know not.
The car is more important than the driver 75% car 25% driver
Isn't there an in-season testing ban in F1? What makes the "straight line test" Red Bull and Toro Rosso will soon be conducting allowable? Seems sketchy to me. And if it's just straight line, why do they need to pull Vettel from a previous engagement to perform it??!
ACtually they've been told that they'll try the new parts of the car (Toro Rosso). "Trying" here is practically "testing" 
I know Hungary is a slow track, in addition we have that vanwall said, but I doubd this stuff will be completely irrelevant and that Toro Rosso won't collect any data at all .
Edited by Adam on 17 July 2009 at 14:09
Edited by Adam on 17 July 2009 at 14:09
What makes the "straight-line" test allowable is an exemption in Article 22.1 iii) of the Sporting Regulations. Teams are allowed eight straight-line and/or constant-radius corner tests in each calender year.
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Thanks Ali- as always you are a mine of information.
The car is more important than the driver 75% car 25% driver
How straight is straight I wonder? I believe Ferrari have a straight line track at Maranello. However the paving there would suggest it is not perfectly straight.
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vanwall, you're welcome.
wreckless, the "straight line" test would be completely straight, since among other things that makes it easier to validate wind-tunnel data (Toro Rosso's wind tunnel is relatively poor compared to other F1 teams' facilities and even Red Bull's isn't brilliant).
In Ferrari's case, making a straight line at Fiorano isn't that difficult because they just miss all the corners. However, it's probably not the best place to do a straight-line test from a data perspective. It just happens to be closest to the Ferrari factory.
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If the FIA want to see more new drivers in F1 then they need to sit down with the teams and determine a small amount of in-season testing to allow rookies some time behind the wheel besides at race weekends. Personally I think it is a crock of shyte that teams spend millions during the season but cannot test. The amount they spend on aero development cannot be far off what it costs to test, so let's figure out a way of allocating certain funds to stage particular tests. They could restrict them to Europe, where teams can travel by truck, and let's get some testing back!!