the EDGE wrote: ↑22 Dec 2024, 20:49
lio007 wrote: ↑22 Dec 2024, 20:12
ME4ME wrote: ↑22 Dec 2024, 16:32
On the brighter side, if taken with a grain of salt; "This Is Formula 1" on Facebook reporting that RB21 has passed the crash test.
Does anybody know if teams have to do a crash test even nothing is changed on the chassis compared to the previous season?
If there are no changes to the structural parts of chassis, inc the nose cone, then no, they would not need to re-test for the sake of re-testing
Why would you ask? No team would do that.
It’s quite usual for teams to be completing these types of test at this time of year
I'm of an age where I remember teams starting the season with a modified version of their previous chassis, before using the new one once the circus came back to Europe. Of course that was in the days of unlimited testing, so teams like Ferrari were pounding round their test track perfecting it before they put it into action. With reliability a million times better than it was in the those days I can't see any big upside of repeating that strategy today, although it's an interesting idea to re-appraise.
