F1 undertaking “rule-busting phase” to combat teams finding loopholes. F1 undertaking .

Formula 1 managing director of motorsports Ross Brawn admitted that the sport is currently taking on a “rule-busting phase” as it attempts to prevent the teams from identifying and exploiting loopholes with the new rules and regulations for the 2022 championship.

Fans remember the events which took place in the 2009 season, when the Brawn F1 team surprisingly won both the drivers and constructors’ titles led by Ross Brawn himself, mainly thanks to the innovative solution of the double diffuser which cleverly circumvented rules in place at that moment.

As the Formula 1 managing director of motorsports, Ross Brawn is now aware that alongside his team, the former Ferrari boss has to work carefully and go through the all-new aerodynamic regulations which will be introduced in 2022 to make sure there is no room for similar ingenuity as Formula 1 enters a new era.

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The former Ferrari Technical Director was recently interviewed by American daily newspaper The New York Times and was asked whether any potential loopholes had been found: “If you look at what happened in real-time, especially when I was a technical director, it was the odd occasion when a team would come up with an interpretation. Therefore, it was quite extreme in terms of when that happened. It didn’t happen every day of the week. Trying to anticipate every loophole or every interpretation is very difficult but for sure, our process was to understand the problem, design around eliminating the problem. Our group spent some time looking at the sensitivities of the different areas to see where there could be some scope left for the teams to evolve their designs and change their designs. Then we did have a rule-busting phase where we did try and break the rules and see what loopholes we could find. We went through that. I won’t pretend we would’ve found every loophole, but we definitely went through a regulation testing phase of seeing where we could find some opportunities.” – Ross Brawn explained.

Asked if there could be another Brawn double diffuser situation in the pipeline, he added: “I don’t think so, no. But you never know. Nobody expected it before it happened.”