- 11 Feb 16, 17:45#439295
After the agony of defeat, success will be sweet!
As I'm sure it will continue to be an issue, here are the "rules" -- will they still be open to interpretation? 
Staff wrote:">Testing - What the sporting regulations say:
Teams are permitted to carry out no more than 15,000km of testing with a current car (or previous year’s car) in a single calendar year.
Promotional events (of which each team is allowed two per season up to a maximum distance of 100km each) and demonstration events (of which each team is allowed two per season up to a maximum distance of 15km using demonstration tyres) do not count towards this tally.
Testing can only take place with one car per team at FIA-approved sites and cannot take place outside of Europe without the agreement of a majority of the teams.
Ahead of a session, teams must inform the governing body of their schedule so that an observer can be appointed if deemed necessary.
All cars must be fitted with the standardised, FIA-approved Electronic Control Unit and have successfully passed all FIA-mandated crash tests. Cars must also comply with all cockpit and safety equipment requirements during testing as they would at races; such as the position of the driver’s head, all headrest padding, cockpit padding and ease of driver egress.
Between February 1 and ten days before the first race of the season, the teams are permitted to take part in two team tests of no more than four days. One of the days during these three tests must be set aside for wet-weather tyre testing.
From the start of the season to the end of the calendar year, the teams are permitted to take part in two team tests of no more than two consecutive days at circuits where an event has just taken place. These tests must commence no less than 36 hours after the end of said event.
Two days of each in-season test must be allocated to young driver training. A young driver is classified as someone who has competed two or fewer Grands Prix.
The FIA also reserves the right to organise up to six two-day tests on behalf of the official tyre provider for the sole purpose of tyre development.
All competitors must observe a factory shutdown period of 14 consecutive days in July and/or August, during which time their wind tunnels and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) facilities must not be used for Formula One activities.
Wind tunnel testing is heavily restricted, both in terms of what kind of testing may be done and how long it may be done for. Scale models used may be no larger than 60 percent and speeds are limited to 50 metres per second.
Similar restrictions also apply to CFD simulation work.
(During testing) cars being driven by drivers who do not possess a Super Licence must be fitted with a green rear light which must be illuminated at all times the car is on the track.
Article 10.9c of the 2016 FIA Sporting Regulations
Staff wrote:">Testing - What the sporting regulations say:
Teams are permitted to carry out no more than 15,000km of testing with a current car (or previous year’s car) in a single calendar year.
Promotional events (of which each team is allowed two per season up to a maximum distance of 100km each) and demonstration events (of which each team is allowed two per season up to a maximum distance of 15km using demonstration tyres) do not count towards this tally.
Testing can only take place with one car per team at FIA-approved sites and cannot take place outside of Europe without the agreement of a majority of the teams.
Ahead of a session, teams must inform the governing body of their schedule so that an observer can be appointed if deemed necessary.
All cars must be fitted with the standardised, FIA-approved Electronic Control Unit and have successfully passed all FIA-mandated crash tests. Cars must also comply with all cockpit and safety equipment requirements during testing as they would at races; such as the position of the driver’s head, all headrest padding, cockpit padding and ease of driver egress.
Between February 1 and ten days before the first race of the season, the teams are permitted to take part in two team tests of no more than four days. One of the days during these three tests must be set aside for wet-weather tyre testing.
From the start of the season to the end of the calendar year, the teams are permitted to take part in two team tests of no more than two consecutive days at circuits where an event has just taken place. These tests must commence no less than 36 hours after the end of said event.
Two days of each in-season test must be allocated to young driver training. A young driver is classified as someone who has competed two or fewer Grands Prix.
The FIA also reserves the right to organise up to six two-day tests on behalf of the official tyre provider for the sole purpose of tyre development.
All competitors must observe a factory shutdown period of 14 consecutive days in July and/or August, during which time their wind tunnels and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) facilities must not be used for Formula One activities.
Wind tunnel testing is heavily restricted, both in terms of what kind of testing may be done and how long it may be done for. Scale models used may be no larger than 60 percent and speeds are limited to 50 metres per second.
Similar restrictions also apply to CFD simulation work.
(During testing) cars being driven by drivers who do not possess a Super Licence must be fitted with a green rear light which must be illuminated at all times the car is on the track.
Article 10.9c of the 2016 FIA Sporting Regulations
After the agony of defeat, success will be sweet!