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Originally Posted by csirl
Turbulance - instead of specifying sizes etc., you put in the rules that it is illegal for any structures on a car to cause a reduction in downforce for a following car - set a % or value OR is not allowed to cause X amount of turbulance. It is possible to devise tests for these.
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I'm sure if I was a good enough designer I could look at your car and design mine to make yours illegal. I agree turbulence is the problem but it's a problem bigger than the sport at the moment.
Covering the wheels would help a lot (no longer open wheel), skinny tyres reduce downforce required (grip balance), chucking all the wings out would help (cars slower than GP2), reduce engine power significantly, reducing the benefit of big wings might help (same problem as above)
Maybe we have rear wings no more than 500mm tall and front wings at least 1,000mm tall that'll clean the air for everyone.