The FIA is evaluating Force India's proposal to modify Formula 1's Sporting Regulations as part of the team's push towards total reliance on CFD rather than wind tunnels for aerodynamic research. All F1 teams currently operate under carefully monitored FIA Aerodynamic Testing Restrictions, which balance wind tunnel hours with the use of CFD teraflops. Force India believes that the current system is too heavily weighted in favour of tunnels, and has thus submitted a proposal for a second system to operate in parallel, and which teams who want to focus on CFD can choose. This would be of particular interest to teams who do not have tunnels and have to rent time in third-party facilities at...
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