The FIA could backtrack on the blown diffuser issue

As we explained to you this morning (read our article here), the regulations around the blown diffuser are subject to many discontentments. Finally, at the end of an extraordinary technical working group meeting before the qualifications, Red Bull decided to accept the regulations for Silverstone, but Christian Horner stated that he wanted clarifications for the upcoming races. For the team principal of the Austrian team, the ideal would be to return to the situation in Valencia with the ban on changing engine mapping between qualifications and the race. The debate was therefore not yet closed.

This afternoon the FIA announced that it was ready to backtrack and return to the situation as it was during the European Grand Prix for the upcoming events on the calendar. If the teams are unanimous, the FIA is ready to adopt this arrangement until the end of the season, indicated the International Federation in a statement. However, the instructions given this morning by Charlie Whiting remain in effect for this Grand Prix.

The question will be whether all the teams will agree to backtrack. A meeting between the different team leaders will be held tomorrow, so we should learn more about this issue. In any case, the FIA is clearly placing the ball in the teams’ court. We’ll see if Scuderia Ferrari, silent on the matter since the beginning of the weekend, will agree to backtrack after a qualifying session where their drivers finished very close to the Red Bull drivers…

See you tomorrow for yet another twist in this increasingly ridiculous affair.