The culmination of two years of research concluded on October 31st when FOM and the FIA jointly presented the rules for 2021 in Austin. The car presented was the FOM wind tunnel model which is highly stylized, but what do the regulations say and how will teams go about designing cars for 2021? In this first part we take a look at the general wording of the bodywork and aerodynamic rules, before going into details about the front and rear wing design and the new underbody geometry in later articles. As discussed in our article on the evolution of regulation volumes the bodywork is forced into ever more restrictive boxes (shown below). Parts are more tightly regulated than before with more...
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