FIA ban would affect McLaren

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McLaren's engineering director Tim Goss says that the performance of its car would suffer if the FIA introduces a limit on how exhaust gases are blown through diffusers.

The planned ban focuses on engine modes maintaining the flow of gases through the exhaust even when the throttle is not being used, in order to enhance downforce from the diffuser. The ban was initially going to be introduced for this weekend's race in Spain, but it has since been postponed indefinitely to ensure that no one team is penalised unfairly. Goss said he was unable to work out how much it would disadvantage McLaren compared to other teams, but that it would affect it.

"It's difficult to know," Goss told a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes phone-in. "I think all of the major teams are up to the same tricks with regards to engine mapping. Certainly we exploit them. If the latest guidelines that the FIA have given us on use of engine to drive exhaust systems came in then it would be a performance setback to us. I know it would almost certainly be a performance setback to our major competitors.

"As to whether it affects us more than our competitors is impossible for me to say. I know what we get out of it and we get quite a substantial benefit, but I imagine it would be just a sizeable a setback to our competitors as well.

"We're just working to the latest set of guidelines from the FIA - I think we can react to whatever they tell us reasonably promptly - and for the moment it would appear that the FIA have decided that it's quite a complex matter and that they need more time to consider how they will try and police it. So as a result it looks like at the Spanish Grand Prix it will be business as usual."

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner yesterday believed the ban would have been due to a rival team complaining, but when asked how the proposed ban came about, Goss said he was unaware that it was even being discussed.

"I don't know whether they've taken it on themselves to clampdown on this or whether they've been prompted to. I think since the middle of last season then it's come quite apparent to journalists and then hence the public that teams have been changing their engine map to get more out of exhaust momentum and the effects of that on the rear end of the car - or in Renault's case the front end of the car. So I think it's been around for a while, but there hasn't been much debate about clamping down on it if any."

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