The FIA pulled out of the top hat in the Grand Prix of Europe face ban on changing the engine maps between the qualifying and the race. A measure that it might deprive certain teams up to half a second per lap in some cases. At least thats what argue from what it says on the paddock.
Charlie Whiting, also known as Waiting for parsimony to take certain decisions, has indicated that information that has come the gain provided by the engine map can be up to half a second per lap in the most extreme cases. It is not a figure of which are safe or to confirm, but has served them to take measures in this regard.
I think that for us it is impossible to quantify it, but I've heard that in the most extreme cases the motor maps can give you half a second per lap. That is what I have escuado, but it is not something that can be confirmed.To Whiting he had been surprised that some teams have been doing with their engine maps:
Everyone makes it to some extent. Some are taking far more than others and you could argue that they are doing better, but all do to a certain extent. Very extreme cases out there, I am quite surprised.Replying to questions about why the FIA decided to take action on the matter, responded:
What we are doing is to ensure we think that it should be a legal car. We know that expelled gases influence the aerodynamic performance of the car, we accept, but the issue is that design should minimize the impact on him, they should not get them the way they do. It is a bit like the mass dampers, at first it was benign, but they ended up abusing them and we had to do something.Whiting also squandered an opportunity to reaffirm the position of the FIA in this regard:
We have not changed the rules, we're simply preventing that the rules break.They would have to do to prevent this type of action is to make a profound renovation of the FIA to avoid legislating improvisation coup day itself and day too...
