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On the surface the regulation changes made by the FIA for the 2016 Formula 1 season may not look like much but altogether they could add up to more than each individual change suggests.
Power Units
Starting in 2016 each driver will be allocated five power units up from four last year, which makes sense given that 2016 has two more races in Azerbaijan and the return of germany on the calender. In it’s first season any new engine manufacturer will now receive and extra power unit allocation per driver added without penalty along with extra development tokens.
Wind Tunnel
Wind tunnel changes have clearly been made in response to Ferrari and HAAS sharing wind tunnel time throughout 2015. Starting in 2016 teams will now be required to photo-document the entire working section of the car, time stamp and hand over copies to the FIA for all wind tunnel activity.
Testing
Power unit suppliers are now banned from private testing altogether and are to utilise only the two pre-season tests which will be limited to a total of 15,000km.
Tyres
Pirelli will select three different compounds of tyre per weekend from five different types, which include the new purple colored ultra-soft alongside the existing four compound types used previously.
As before each driver will get 13 sets of tyres per weekend (each set is four tyres). They will be able to choose the compounds for ten of these sets from the three compounds available.
Of the remaining sets, two will be a fixed set chosen by Pirelli which will be the same for every driver, and may be of two different compounds. The final set will be of the softer compound and will be available for Q3.
Power Units
Starting in 2016 each driver will be allocated five power units up from four last year, which makes sense given that 2016 has two more races in Azerbaijan and the return of germany on the calender. In it’s first season any new engine manufacturer will now receive and extra power unit allocation per driver added without penalty along with extra development tokens.
Wind Tunnel
Wind tunnel changes have clearly been made in response to Ferrari and HAAS sharing wind tunnel time throughout 2015. Starting in 2016 teams will now be required to photo-document the entire working section of the car, time stamp and hand over copies to the FIA for all wind tunnel activity.
Testing
Power unit suppliers are now banned from private testing altogether and are to utilise only the two pre-season tests which will be limited to a total of 15,000km.
Tyres
Pirelli will select three different compounds of tyre per weekend from five different types, which include the new purple colored ultra-soft alongside the existing four compound types used previously.
As before each driver will get 13 sets of tyres per weekend (each set is four tyres). They will be able to choose the compounds for ten of these sets from the three compounds available.
Of the remaining sets, two will be a fixed set chosen by Pirelli which will be the same for every driver, and may be of two different compounds. The final set will be of the softer compound and will be available for Q3.