Newsgroup: it.sport.formula1.moderato
Titolo: [ENG] FIA looking at rule changes THIS season

Source: 
grandprix.com
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns12734.html
The FIA President Max Mosley has told the Reuters newsagency that the
federation is worried about the speed of the Formula 1 cars and could act
to slow them down. Mosley said that according to the Concorde Agreement
this could be done in the course of the current season on the grounds of
safety.
"We are looking very carefully at possibly using powers that we have
under the Concorde Agreement to reduce the performance of the cars,"
Mosley said. "If we conclude that the cars are too fast, then we can give
notice to the teams under the Concorde Agreement which requires the
technical working group to come up with proposals for slowing the cars
and they have to do that within a limited time. If they don't come up
with the proposals, we have the right to impose something."
Although the Concorde Agreement is a secret document it is our
understanding that the teams have two months to come up with ideas before
the FIA is allowed to act. The chances of the teams all agreeing to
anything is, of course, highly unlikely.
The quickest and easiest way to reduce the cornering speeds of the cars
would be to increase the thickness of the underfloor "plank" which is
boted to the bottom of the cars to stop them running close to the ground.
This would involve only changing one number in the regulations. this
would mean that teams would need to look again at heir aerodynamic
performance and almost certainly rethink their suspension geometries.
Another method of slowing the cars would be to insist on a change of the
tyre regulations with an increase in the number of grooves. This would
not be popular with the tyre companies which would need to create new
moulds. The most extreme form of change - which would not really be
possible in the course of a season - would be to reduce the engine
capacity. There appear to be plns for this to happen in 2006 with a new
2.4-litre V8 idea having been discussed. Back in 1994, in the wake of
Ayrton Senna's accident at Imola, the FIA did insist that engines be
reduced from 3.5-litre units to 3.0-litres but this was not introduced
until the end of the year.
If the Technical Working Group does not come up with a suitable solution,
the FIA can give them three alternative packages of measures and they
must choose one.
The FIA can justify the need to cut speeds by looking at the lap times
this year but there are bound to be cynics in F1 who will look at the
situation and suggest that this could be viewed as an attempt by the
governing body to throw the cat among the pigeons and shake up the sport
to stop Ferrari's domination.
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 a new 2.4-litre V8 idea 
potenze ancora troppo elevate, IMHO
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 potenze ancora troppo elevate, IMHO
Soprattutto il motore diventa ancor piu' leggero e quindi la macchina
possiede ancora piu' zavorra. 
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