The FIA goes ahead with its plans to ban the blown diffuser

The FIA has confirmed to the teams it won't reverse its decision to ban the diffuser blown this season. Its aim is to have everything ready so that from the award of Great Britain these systems becomes a better life in formula one. The original plan was to have prevented its use from the Grand Prize of Spain, but then had to move back in its intention to prohibit such a system.
In Autosport indicate that they have knowledge that the FIA wrote to the teams on Saturday morning in Montreal commenting them that continued forward with its plans to ban the use of the blown diffusers. The regulatory body shall not be so easily.
As a result of the meeting of the F1 technical working group, on Thursday in London, FIA indicates that it intends to ban them from the Grand Prix of Great Britain and change the technical regulations for 2012 to outlaw them altogether.
Williams, Sam Michael, technical director confirmed that the teams have been informed of this:

The FIA has made very clear its position. Charlie Whiting said that the blown hot and cold will be banned from Silverstone. By 2012 the exhaust system must be behind the rear axle, specifically 330 mm rear, right in the back of the diffuser. This means that leakage will not have any influence on the diffuser.

Charlie Whiting for his part, said that the FIA took letters in the matter because they were concerned to equipment be abusing this detail:

For us it was evident in the wake of the data, which for us was relatively benign was becoming something that was being used, in our opinion, illegally. The purpose of an exhaust system is to expel the gases of the engine, but if when you are not giving gas still working, already not is fulfilling its original mission. It happens to influence the aerodynamic characteristics of the car. We believe that, without a doubt, infringed article 3.15 of the technical regulation.

The question then is, if they have doubts as to its illegality, why they have been slow both in action? In the case of the rear wing of Ferrari took 24 hours to ban it, having previously approved its use. In his view, it violated the "spirit of the rule". On the other hand, with the rear diffusers have gone four Grands Prix, or what is the same, more than a month and a half. And all so happy.
I call that consistency to regulate. In this sense the FIA is second to none. This agency is one of the great evils of formula one. The other is Bernie Ecclestone and his continuing globalization of competition, that does not have another purpose that fill the Pocket regardless of replace mythical circuits by tilkodromos that are clones each other.

Ferrari plans to improve its wind tunnel in summer

A few weeks ago my colleague Igor commented that Ferrari had given the main problem of the designs of his single-seater, outdated wind tunnel. An aspect that was greatly by conditioning the aerodynamics of their cars, and that leaves them in inferiority with respect to many of its rivals, which does have latest wind tunnels.
The Scuderia has put the batteries and plans to improve its facilities at the end of summer. With them they hope to put an end to the problems affecting its wind tunnel. So much so, that they used the of Toyota Motorsport, located in Cologne, to assist in the design of the Ferrari 150 ° Italy.
Ferrari has been identified that their wind tunnel produces erroneous data, which do not correspond with reality. This detail was confirmed when they compared their results with those obtained in the Toyota. In addition to contributing to the design of its current single-seat, also they used in order to calibrate their own. The conclusion is known by all, of the Maranello needs more than a simple hand of sheet metal and painting.
The changes have already begun to try to alleviate the situation, and the technical director Aldo Costa said yesterday in Turkey that there will be major reforms later this year:

It is not uncommon to have a problem with the wind tunnel, unfortunately when what we have received much attention. These cars are very complex in terms of management of vortices in many areas, and there are certain areas where it is not working too well. So we have analyzed parts of the tunnel and aspects of its architecture. Redesigning probably will be after the break of August, around September or October.

The Italian confirmed that they have used the Toyota facilities:

We investigate the Toyota wind tunnel, so we have the possibility to compare three different environments, our tunnel, yours and the track, and also a fourth because the CFD (computational fluid dynamics). I think that we have made considerable progress, and I hope that we will have a very good correlation between the tunnel and the track for September or October. By then we hope to forget about the problems has been accusing.