Until now, the FIA sends auditors of at factories of her groups Formula 1, warning them, but first for her visitlargely negating the utility of impending control.
This is what she wants to change now Federationby Nikola Topazis to announce a new protocol on these tests, which as the years go by and new restrictions come in (on wind tunnel testing time and CFD and the sharing of information and data from team to team) are increasingly necessary.
“We want to visit the factories without any warning,” explained the Greek head of cars.
“We’re not saying they’ll see us outside the door and come in, but we should have a process where we’ll call them on the phone, someone from the team will come to pick up the controllers and they’ll ask to see the wind tunnel or what they need to see.”
And he continued:
“We want to wait a maximum of 10-15 minutes, we want everything to be done immediately. We don’t want to wait at the door for an hour or anything like that.”
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