Timo Goss: McLaren, teams to suffer if FIA bans blown diffusers for 2011 season – Formula 1 news
McLaren-Mercedes engineering director Timo Goss has said that the top teams of Formula 1 including themselves will suffer a lot if the International Automobile Federation (FIA) bans blown diffusers.
Goss added that the blown diffuser was just a way around the FIA regulations but now the governing body is looking to unplug it.
Goss stated, “I think all the major teams are up to the same tricks with regards to engine mapping. We certainly exploit them. And if the latest guidelines from the FIA on the use of engines to drive exhaust systems came in then it would be a performance
setback to us.”
He added that it will be a setback for his team but there is no way to tell which team will suffer more from it.
Red Bull were the first team to use the waste gasses from the car’s engine as an additive for speed. The mastermind technician Adrian Newey came up with the idea of a diffuser which uses the engine gasses in such a way that even when the driver is off the
throttle in the corners, the blown gasses keep on blowing, giving some extra edge to the car.
After Red Bull revealed the technology in the Australian Grand Prix, many teams including McLaren replicated it and brought out some extra kick from their cars.
Goss stated that unexpectedly, the FIA decided to ban the blown diffuser so it is still unclear how they got involved in the diffuser debate.
“Whether they’ve taken it on themselves to clamp down on it or whether they’ve been prompted to, I’m afraid I don’t know,” commented Goss.
He further explained that right after the 2010 season concluded, every major team started to design their cars to make the most out of the blown gasses of the engine and the FIA knew about it.
Nevertheless, the Formula 1 teams got a stay order from the court and the diffuser has been allowed for the Spanish Grand Prix.
Let’s see what transpires for the rest of the 2011 Formula 1 season.
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