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Binotto: F1 not at all ready to ban wind tunnel testing

Article To news overview Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto believes that Formula 1 isn't quite ready to introduce a wind tunnel ban. Such a ban has been rumoured as a potential cost saving exercise in the coming years as the financial restrictions of the newly introduced budget cap are further tightened. This would see a shift away from wind tunnel testing to the use of highly advanced CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) software. But Binotto believes the time isn't quite right to bring up the topic, and said the target should be for the start of the next decade. "Banning the wind tunnel has been discussed for 2030, not earlier. That was the proposal," Binotto told select...
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