Rumours some teams have found a loophole around Pirelli’s minimum tyre pressure rules are doing the rounds in the Barcelona paddock.<\/p>\n
Auto Motor und Sport correspondent Michael Schmidt claims McLaren wrote a letter to the FIA seeking clarification about a supposed technical trick that lowers tyre pressures once a car is running.<\/p>\n
Pirelli’s mandatory minimum tyre pressures in 2016, much higher than in the past, have proved controversial and unpopular.<\/p>\n
But Pirelli and the FIA have reportedly noticed that two teams – one top team and another midfield runner – have shown in-race pressures that are consistently 2 PSI lower than their competitors.<\/p>\n
Mercedes has denied it is the guilty party: “The measures to reduce pressure would, in our opinion, have too many bad side effects,” the German report quoted the team as saying.<\/p>\n
And Force India’s team manager Andy Stevenson said the kind of technology involved would be too expensive for the Silverstone team.<\/p>\n
Two more teams linked with the trick have been Red Bull and Toro Rosso.<\/p>\n
McLaren reportedly suspects that the offending teams have come up with a double-walled rim in which pressure can be released while the car is running, but the FIA says that solution would be illegal.<\/p>\n
The issue, including a potential enforcement of minimum tyre pressures when the cars are actually running, was reportedly discussed briefly in the teams’ briefing with Charlie Whiting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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