One remaining race stays earlier than System 1’s August shutdown.
As mandated by the game’s rules, groups are required to take a 14-day break in July or August, throughout which no F1-related exercise can happen. Factories should be closed, wind tunnels stay turned off, and no manufacturing or improvement of automotive elements, take a look at elements, or instruments can happen.
This additionally applies to engine and energy unit producers.
“We aren’t allowed to work, suppose, or do something that might make an F1 automotive go faster,” described Mercedes Technical Director James Allison.
“It principally means we get to go residence and have a vacation for 14 consecutive days!”
Till then, nonetheless, we’ve one final Grand Prix, the Hungarian Grand Prix this weekend. Set on the upgraded Hungaroring — usually described as “Monaco with out the partitions” — this final race earlier than the break comes at an interesting time for a number of groups and drivers. Ferrari, Mercedes, and Crimson Bull stay locked in a three-way combat for second behind McLaren, whereas the remainder of the grid is clustered collectively in an exhilarating midfield battle.
On the Drivers’ Championship aspect of issues, after Lando Norris closed to inside eight factors of him following the British Grand Prix, Oscar Piastri’s bounce-back win on the Belgian Grand Prix doubled his benefit over his McLaren teammate.
And naturally, a return to Hungary brings again some attention-grabbing reminiscences for the McLaren duo. Final yr, Piastri gained his first F1 Grand Prix, in a race marked by workforce orders given to Norris to swap locations along with his teammate, to return Piastri to P1 after a collection of pit stops.
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