The FIA has introduced a raft of changes to next year’s Formula 1 sporting regulations to open up opportunities for supplementary testing.
Next year’s F1 season will once again see just a single three-day pre-season test in Bahrain a week prior to the opening round at the Sakhir circuit.
Although there will be no official in-season tests and teams are largely prohibited from running their 2024 cars privately, the FIA has expanded the scope for testing in some specific circumstances through the season.
At the request of F1 tyre suppliers Pirelli, the allocation of FIA-organised tyre testing days permitted for Pirelli to gather data for tyre development has increased by five from 35 days to 40. In addition, there will be four days dedicated to testing wet weather tyres.
This will give teams an opportunity to assist Pirelli in developing the intermediate and wet tyre compounds which have been criticised by many drivers. The FIA is also seeking to develop a form of wheel guard to reduce the spray thrown up by the tyres.
As was the case this season, teams will be permitted to run so-called ‘promotional events’ – commonly referred to as ‘filming days’ – in which they may run their current cars using specifically designed tyres. However, the previous 100 kilometre allowance for filming days has been doubled, with a clarification that teams are only allowed to carry out one promotional filming event in a single day.
One major benefit for teams next season is that regulations over ‘testing of previous cars’ (TPC), which allows teams to run private F1 track days with cars at least two years old, will permit teams to run 2022 cars that use the ground effect aerodynamic concepts of the current generation of F1 cars. However, a new tweak to the TPC rules for 2024 states that teams must only use components and software that was used at at least one grand prix event or test during the 2022 season – preventing teams from using TPC days for running experimental or untested parts that could be used to gather data for their 2024 cars.
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