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2013 FORMULA RENAULT 1.6 Technical Regulations -5-
13/03/2013
ARTICLE 1 – DEFINITIONS
1.1 - FORMULA RENAULT 1.6 car
Automo
bile designed only for speed events on a circuit or a closed route.
Only FORMULA RENAULT 1.6 cars marketed by RENAULT SPORT and compliant
with these Technical Regulations, as well as the 2013 edition of the
Nomenclature, will be authorized to take part in the 2013 FORMULA RENAULT 1.6
championship.
1.2 - Bodywork
All
entirely-sprung parts of the FORMULA RENAULT 1.6 car in contact with the
external air system, except for the roll structures and those parts incontestably
associated with the mechanical functioning of the engine, the transmission and
the running gear.
Radiators are considered as part of the bodywork.
1.3 – Tyres
New tyre:
tyre which has not been used, supplied by the
distributor selected by the organizer for the
event in question (or RENAULT SPORT practice
session).
Registered tyre: tyre that has previously been registered for an
event, group tests or official practice sessions,
irrespective of having been used or not.
1.4 - Event
An event
will be made up of the qualifying sessions and race(s).
An event begins with the start of preliminary Scrutineering and ends with the
opening of the Parc Fermé period at the end of the last race.
1.5 - Minimum weight
The weigh
t of the FORMULA RENAULT 1.6 car at any moment of an event,
without fuel or driver.
1.6 – Racing weight
The weigh
t of the FORMULA RENAULT 1.6 car in running order, with the driver
and his/her race equipment on board, with the remaining fuel in the tank. Article
1.5 still applies.
1.7 - Cockpit
The section which
houses the driver.