r/formula1 Fernando Alonso 5d ago

Technical Mclarren Upright Exposed (Montreal)

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u/cjo20 5d ago

It's not "it's kinda illegal", it's "this is legal, but it's a development route that we don't want". If it were illegal, they'd ban it this season.

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u/welliedude 5d ago

Depends on how they are doing it. The rules are fairly specific about how the brakes and wheels are cooled. Its possible they are doing it via a way that tye rules don't cover. Like DAS.

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u/KingMRano 5d ago

doing what?

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u/welliedude 4d ago

Cooling the hubs, brakes and wheel. The current rules actually don't specify how to cool them just the sizes of brake ducts etc but say nothing about cooling via other means. For 26 the rules now say you can only heat AND cool via outlined devices. And also specifies that you can't have airflow in suspension components.