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Major changes expected to take place in the 2013 Formula 1 season

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According to the FIA, the officials are hoping to make Formula 1 more green and environment friendly as we all know that the world is currently in a very crucial state when it comes to resources.
The FIA recently announced that the cars will be extremely efficient and that way, the amount of fuel each team uses for a Grand Prix will decrease by 35%.
Other than that, the FIA also announced that the current layout and dimensions of a car would also change as the cars are expected to have much smaller wings and uniquely shaped floors in order to generate downforce.  
According to the two most respected engineers who drew this whole setup, Patrick Head and Rory Byrne believes that this would be the biggest design change since 1983.
“We are only going to have roughly 65% of the amount of fuel and a [limited] fuel [flow] rate - that was a given. We were just told 'That's what it will be, you've got to come up with a car spec that is not going to be more than five seconds a lap slower
than a current F1 car,” Head told the media.
The FIA is expected to send their official report regarding this matter that will contain the draft regulations in the beginning of January after their meeting with F1’s Technical Working Group.
The FIA will discuss these terms thoroughly with TWG and it seems that the major changes will include: a major reduction in the amount of total downforce applied by the car, change of length of the floor of a car and the amount of full throttle a driver
applies on an average proportion of a lap will be reduced from 70% to 50%.
However, the size of the tyres will remain the same in order to maintain the grip level of the cars. Head used to be the director of engineering for Williams while Byrne was the former chief designer for Ferrari and it seems that both of them are one of
the most experienced engineers the sport has to offer.
“So some circuit simulation was done by Rory at Ferrari and when we'd come up with some numbers in terms of drag and downforce it was then to try to come up with a geometry of a car that could try to achieve that,” he added.

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