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Binotto: Early ban on wind-tunnels would prove 'expensive' for F1

Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto says an early ban on wind tunnels in F1 testing would only lead to an increase in track testing and to an expensive step up of costs. In a bid to further reduce the sport's costs in the future, Formula 1 has tabled the idea of banning wind tunnels from 2030 and having team designers rely entirely on the numerical analysis benefits of CFD, or Computational Fluid Dynamics. F1's proposition was received with a lot of interest by teams, with 8 of the sport's 10 outfits voting positively on a "statement of intent" submitted late last year at a meeting of the F1 Commission. While a ban would be implemented from 2030, the decision would require a long...
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