The summer season shutdown, carried out by Components 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 not perform any work associated to the automobile efficiency – together with design, growth, manufacturing of elements and use of simulators – so no-one will get an unfair benefit.
Emails, cellphone calls and conferences about performances are additionally forbidden, and prices are stored in verify due to the pause.
Groups should notify the FIA of their supposed shutdown interval through the summer season break, which this yr falls between the Hungarian Grand Prix on the finish of July and the Dutch Grand Prix in direction of the tip of August.
Groups are likely to go for the center two weeks, which permits time to debrief after the earlier race and put together for the subsequent.
Repairs to “significantly broken” automobiles might be carried out through the shutdown, with approval from the FIA.
Anybody breaking these guidelines through the shutdown receives a penalty.
Nonetheless, departments in a roundabout way associated to the efficiency and growth of the automobile – reminiscent of 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, in December.
