The summer season shutdown, carried out by System 1’s governing physique the FIA, is a compulsory 14-day consecutive interval the place all opponents and their employees are prohibited from working.
Through the two weeks, groups can’t perform any work associated to the automobile efficiency – this contains design, improvement, manufacturing of elements and use of simulators – so no-one will get an unfair benefit.
Emails, telephone calls and conferences about performances are additionally forbidden, and prices are stored in test as a result of pause.
Groups should notify the FIA of their meant shutdown interval in the course of the summer season break, which this 12 months falls between the Hungarian Grand Prix at first of August and the Dutch Grand Prix on the finish of the month.
Groups are inclined to go for the center two weeks, which permits time to debrief after the earlier race and put together for the following.
Repairs to “significantly broken” automobiles may be carried out in the course of the shutdown, with approval from the FIA.
Anybody breaking these guidelines in the course of the shutdown will obtain a penalty.
Nevertheless, departments in a roundabout way associated to the efficiency and improvement of the automobile – corresponding to advertising, finance and authorized – can proceed to function as regular throughout this era.
There’s a second shutdown of 9 consecutive days on the finish of a season, beginning on 24 December.
