Components One groups will check a bolt-on wheel cowl aimed toward decreasing spray in moist situations subsequent week.

Mercedes and McLaren will check the gadget at Silverstone on Thursday subsequent week after the tyre exams which comply with Sunday’s British Grand Prix.

F1 vehicles presently throw out an enormous quantity of spray within the moist attributable to their designs, which has created conditions the place the governing FIA’s occasion stewards are reluctant to begin or restart races, or permit them to proceed, in heavy rain.

There have been notable examples, such because the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix, the place two laps had been accomplished behind the Security Automobile earlier than the race was reduce quick because of the situations being too dangerous.

The beginning of final yr’s Monaco Grand Prix was delayed attributable to a rainstorm earlier than the occasion, whereas the Japanese Grand Prix had an extended red-flag interval after two laps behind a Security Automobile.

Mercedes and McLaren will check the effectiveness of the brand new gadget and whether or not they create difficult in relation to altering tyres at a pit cease.

Security in moist situations resurfaced as a speaking level final week when Components Regional driver Dilano van ‘t Hoff was killed in a collision at Spa-Francorchamps in heavy rain.