With testing so restricted in F1, groups have typically had to make use of filming days as a approach of shaking down new automobiles previous to any official group operating.
Beforehand, groups had been restricted to 100 kilometres of operating on such filming days – which quantities to lower than 20 laps of a typical monitor.
Following a vote on the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council, nonetheless, this mileage allowance has been doubled with rapid impact.
Groups will now be allowed to run 200km in whole. This implies for a monitor like Silverstone, the place groups may solely run 16 laps beforehand, they’ll now be allowed to go for 33.
The leap might be particularly useful for these pre-season shakedowns as groups attempt to iron out any niggles with new automobiles.
The FIA has additionally added a clause to the brand new guidelines to make it clear that, from the 2 filming days groups are allowed over the course of a season “just one could also be carried out per staff per day.”
Different restrictions on filming days, that are formally categorized as promotional occasions, stay the identical – which embody that automobiles should be fitted with an FIA ECU and use tyres manufactured particularly for such occasions.
In addition to the 2 promotional occasions, groups are additionally allowed two demonstration occasions the place they will run their automobiles for a most of 50km. Nevertheless, there isn’t a longer a requirement for groups to wish to tell rivals in the event that they participate in certainly one of these.
Additional tweaks to the testing guidelines for 2024 embody the truth that pre-season testing, which is ready to happen in Bahrain, will run every day from 10am to 7pm, reasonably than 7.30pm as was the case final yr.
Max Verstappen, Pink Bull Racing RB19
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New part clampdown
The FIA has additionally tidied up rules relating to testing of {old} automobiles, with it made clear that any parts run on such equipment will need to have beforehand been used at a race weekend.
A revised Article 10.2 C) states: “Vehicles should solely use parts and software program of a specification which were utilized in no less than one (1) Competitors or TCC (testing of a present automobile) of a Championship season.”
It will forestall any groups from operating brand-new objects on an {old} automobile to attempt to consider it exterior of testing restrictions.
Moreover, a brand new clause has outlawed any techniques or components in the course of the testing of {old} automobiles that may assist present info for present equipment.
“No check components, sensors, instrumentation, check software program, part modifications, operational checks or procedural checks might be permitted which give any kind of info to the Competitor that’s associated to automobiles of the present Championship or automobiles complying with TCC,” states a brand new rule.
It added: “For the avoidance of doubt, solely instrumentation and sensors which might be required for the dependable operation of the automobile and have been fitted at a number of races of the interval might be permitted.”