Proper now, our favourite F1 drivers (and their respective groups) are chilling the fuck out after racing for six months. Actually, they’re all capable of get pleasure from a brief vacation for the following few weeks, after which return in relaxed, however race-ready type for Belgium. Now, if you happen to’re pretty new to Method 1, particularly if you happen to’re one of many shiny, new followers because of the Netflix collection Drive to Survive, then the idea of the collection’ “Summer season Shutdown” could elude you. However fear not, Andrew Shovlin, Engineer for the Mercedes-Benz AMG Petronas F1 crew, explains it for us.
In a tweet from the Mercedes crew, Shovlin, or “Shov” takes viewers by means of why there’s a summer time shutdown, and it’s not only for a breezy break after touring world wide for six months. It’s really mandated within the guidelines.
The regulation requires each F1 crew to cease work for 14 consecutive days. All improvement, evaluation — actually any work to be completed to the automobile needs to be stopped, except it’s pre-approved by the FIA. Groups and drivers are even prohibited from studying emails. Nevertheless, groups are capable of do upkeep to arrange for the 50 extra weeks of racing forward.
It’s loads of fingers off, and lets everybody simply meet up with themselves for a bit. I prefer to equate it to engaged on a cussed challenge that you simply simply can’t discover a resolution to. You typically take a break, cease engaged on it for a bit to calm down and if you return, you’ve got a breakthrough.
Some groups come again in higher type after break. Some flip into utterly totally different groups (in a nasty method). However one factor is for certain, the racing will nonetheless be good. Besides perhaps for Ferrari.
