Double DRS set to be banned for 2013
1 August, 2012
Aug.1 (GMM) The innovative technical concept, pioneered by Mercedes, and known in the paddock this year as the ‘double DRS’ looks set to be banned for the 2013 season.
Mercedes debuted the controversial straightline speed-boosting concept earlier this year, moving Lotus to lodge an official protest.
But instead of taking the FIA’s decision to allow Mercedes to keep the system to the international court of appeal, Lotus emerged with a new interpretation of ‘double DRS’ during practice at Hockenheim recently.
The team practiced with the system on Kimi Raikkonen’s car again at the Hungaroring, technical boss James Allison saying that the tests helped “bring it a step closer to deployment in a race sometime in the future”.
Speculation suggests that Lotus will indeed debut it at the forthcoming Belgian Grand Prix, with Spa-Francorchamps undoubtedly Raikkonen’s favourite track, and the system said to provide a good advantage on the long straights.
“Spa has always agreed with Kimi,” former Finnish driver Mika Salo told the broadcaster MTV3, “and if the updates improve what is already the best car, he will be looking very good if he is able to start from the first two rows.”
Media headlines at Marca (Spain), Turun Sanomat (Finland), Globo Esporte (Brazil) and elsewhere, however, say that the entire ‘double DRS’ concept looks set to be banned for 2013.
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Just wait until Ferrari has a new innovation, not only will it not be banned, but all testing will be banned again!!!
atleast they have given the name of Super DRS to it !?, whatever it is , these guys (f1 engineers and technical gurus) are really genius.
Ah but the lotus system is not a DRS in fact!
I was listening to Ted in the pit lane as they were setting it up on Kimi’s car and it is a fluid switched (so no driver controls) F Duct.
@Bec or maybe beacuse Ferrari couldnt pioneer it !!!
yeah right ban all the rules then dont leave anything and make F1 boring!!
If Red Bull had pioneered the double DRS, it probably would’ve been banned straight away
This goes on and on and on. Every year the FIA tries to close all tge loopholes, revises the rules to be more strict. The team engineers always come up with some new innovation, the FIA banns the innovation for the following year, the teams come up with further new ones