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What we have done first, discussing with the ACO but we are taking the lead, is to analyse the fuel efficiency of the different engines, and set a power unit balance. What is important is that once you have homologated it and the targets of aero and weight and performance of the power unit is set, this is it.
He also writes for magazines in Germany and Japan.Gilles Simon was announced as the new FIA Technical Director last September, taking on the role at arguably one of the most difficult times in Motorsport’s history.
If you speak about fuel consumption in a race, in a lap, or per 100km, it is high because it is very fast, but if you try to go that fast with any other car, it will be at least twice that, and maybe you are as fast. They never had the ability to get the budget to research it. ‘I don’t feel that entertainment and technology are against each other. For instance, some aero are forbidden for hybrid and accepted for non-hybrid, which is unfair on hybrid; but on fuel consumption, hybrid is favoured, due to combustion plus hybrid. Simon studied at the École des Mines, one of France's top engineering schools. One configuration of bodywork, and we will define an aero efficiency figure that gives the drag figure and load, downforce, that you have. Obviously, motor racing means being submitted to the possibilities that an OEM can withdraw from one date to another, some are committing to a long term, and that gives an image of consistency, but each manufacturer has to deal with its own image. Gilles Simon has left his position as the FIA's director of power train and electronics to join the PURE corporation as technical director. The first is short term.
Once we have done this, we can define such that it will not compromise your design, your efficiency with a car that looks like your brand car. Gilles Simon, früher Peugeot und Ferrari, leitet die Motorenentwicklung der FIA.
Along the way he has worked for the BPR Series, the FIA GT Championship, the World Endurance Championship, Blancpain GT series, British F3, Formula 3000, and the World Touring Car Championship. This effect of leading has always been so, and I believe that it remains important for our industry and our sport.’‘The tricky question for us from a technical regulations side is to find a balance between the cost and the maximum technology that you can fit into it for that price,’ says Simon.
Our approach is to sit down with interested parties rather than say ‘this is the regulation’.’‘The best engines in F1 are at 50 per cent efficiency, say, but what does this mean?
He graduated in 1984 and joined the Renault team, where he worked in R&D for four years. It is tricky and you have different opinions, but we have to discuss it at length to find what is reasonable and the right direction. It is like a machine tool; you use it to make components, that is not a problem, it is good amortisation. To that end, he will work in close cooperation with the FIA departments responsible for the global management of the championships, as well as with the safety department. If you look at the cost of the GT3 car, for example, it is quite high but that is not an issue because you have professional organisations that are racing this car every weekend, so it is an investment. If you had this efficiency on your road car, your consumption would be around two litres per 100km, or something in this range, and that’s spectacular. The issue is probably more to have a sustainable model in each formula of motorsport, so to understand what kind of budget makes sense in F1, endurance, GT or touring cars, once you define this, you have to identify the technology within this window.’‘In June, I was at a congress on gasoline engines, discussing this with other people, and I understood that at least two big OEMs started a programme on energy recovery on the exhaust, because they knew this was a potential solution. We have two categories able to race in LMP1, hybrid and non-hybrid. Add to that the declining Motorsport fanbase, the dieselgate disaster and people’s attitudes starting to shift towards electric mobility and it’s clear that Simon has a lot to do. Le Français retrouve Jean Todt, qu'il connaît bien, pour travailler sur les solutions d'avenir.
We should think like that, and what is important is that you don’t need to change the machine every race. Effective September 1, the FIA has made changes to the structure of its technical division, redistributing responsibilities for sporting and technical matters across the Federation's single-seater championships.Gilles Simon, who had been working for Honda in Sakura, Japan, has become the FIA's Head of Technical. Effective September 1, the FIA has made changes to the structure of its technical division, redistributing responsibilities for sporting and technical matters across the Federation's single-seater championships. To homologate your car you need to be at this point. Sport Auto F1 - Gilles Simon revient à la FIA Sport Auto Gilles Simon a été nommé directeur technique de la FIA. We have to explain it properly so that anybody sensible can understand good performance from a technical point of view.’‘I think that the problem that we may face in many championships, and we face in the endurance championship, is that you discuss the regulation with a small group of manufacturers. Every issue provides unrivalled technical analysis of everything from World Championship series including Formula 1, to grass roots racing. Then you open it to the market of the serious privateers.’Receive the latest news, in-depth features, interviews and analysis in a monthly email put together by the magazine’s editorial team. We need to discuss this with our manufacturers.‘We will then extend discussions not only with the manufacturers and the ACO but also with IMSA. The question is simple; we have to find the right balance. As a promoter in any of our championships, they want the championship to be interesting to the last minute, to be spectacular and provide a good show. We already test the GT cars in the wind tunnel to define their aero efficiency. When you discuss very hard with the manufacturers about how things should go and then a week later one sends a communique that it will not be present the following year it is not a good situation for anybody and not giving a good message, but that is how it is.’‘Endurance racing, we have two issues.