Now the teams have two options: either their drivers must wear the mandatory cooling vests or their cars must carry more ballast.
Whether the drivers elect to use the vests or not, the rules state that their cars must be fitted with the necessary equipment to make the vests work – specifically the pumps, coolant reservoir and heat exchanger.
What is surprising is that that equals only 0.5kg. Must be a small reservoir.
I wonder how much that additional weight impacts any preparations on sim etc that the teams have done. Might mean that they don’t have a lot of data going into the weekend.
Variants of this [Cooling vest] technology have been used in sportscar racing for many years but drivers are still wary of the weight and comfort penalty – or put off by stories of heat exchangers failing, resulting in the hapless pilots essentially cooking sous vide.
Lol. Mandatory cooling tech par boils driver.
