Eight out of 10 teams favour scrapping wind tunnels
Date published:
May 18 2021
Formula 1 chief technical officer Pat Symonds revealed that eight out of the 10 teams would like to do away with wind tunnels.
It has long been essential for the success of a Formula 1 team to spend hours on end testing the aerodynamics of their car in the wind tunnel.
But that time has now become more precious with the introduction of a sliding scale that means a team finishing higher in the Constructors’ Championship is afforded less hours in the wind tunnel than those finishing below them.
But according to Symonds, there are only two teams on the grid which still believe wind tunnels have a place in Formula 1.
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Ocon admitted the team are not yet on the same level of pace as Ferrari, but remains confident Alpine will have a shot at disrupting the pecking order around the streets of Monte Carlo.
“Until we put the car there and we do the qualifying we will not know exactly, but I think looking at our performance in qualifying we should be in good shape in Monaco,” Ocon told reporters, as per Crash.net.
“I think we will be able to perform as good [as in Spain] so I think we can give a fight to Ferrari and the other cars around them in qualifying, I’m pretty confident about that.
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