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Lowe: Loopholes very unlikely in 2019 rule change

Lowe: Loopholes very unlikely in 2019 rule change

03-01-2019 10:02
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Bobby Vincent

Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe has revealed that F1 teams have made an effort to ensure there are no 'loopholes' in the 2019 rule alterations.

Liberty Media are taking their first step in what could be a long process; to eventually increase the amount of overtaking, making the cars less aerodynamically sensitive when they follow each other.

With previous rule changes, there has quite often been little loopholes that teams could exploit. Most famously, the double diffuser concept that helped Brawn GP win the championship in 2009 - to everyone's surprise.

However, 10 years on and Lowe has admitted that the teams have been battling to avoid any sort of similar scenario.

"The teams have been quite ready and open, as least some of them, to put stuff on the table that's then been heavily constrained," Lowe told Motorsport.com. "The regulations are very restrictive. I hope it's the case for everybody else, but we're struggling to find a lot of performance out of these front wings.

"I think generally the teams are of a mindset that they want clarity, and not to have a lot of arguments when we turn up in Australia over poorly defined aspects of the regs.

"With that spirit, everybody has been quite enthusiastic to define things in more and more specific details so everybody knows what they are working with."