F1 team boss warns against FIA silver bullet in Miami

Racing Bulls boss Alan Permane has cautioned that the changes to F1's technical regulations for Miami might not bring an immediate change. 

Talks are underway between the FIA, F1, and the teams to discuss tweaking the regulations after various issues were found during the first three grands prix.

Discussions are taking place today (April 15th) with a further round of talks planned for next week (April 20th) before any decisions taken are sent to the World Motor Sport Council for ratification ahead of the Miami GP.

However, the Miami weekend is a Sprint event, meaning cars have just one hour of free practice before drivers take part in Sprint qualifying, as opposed to a more traditional weekend of three hours' of practice before qualifying.

The way the calendar has fallen, the next two races are both Sprint events, in Miami and Canada, before F1 heads to Monaco on the first weekend in June, where, with the circuit being such an outlier, any meaningful running will not be possible.

Permane has therefore identified the Barcelona-Catalunya GP in the middle of June as the first real chance to test the full package of rule changes.

"I know people don't like lift and coast, and I know we don't want to see any stray harvesting, and the way to eliminate that is to give us much less energy," Permane told media, including RacingNews365.

"We will make the cars slower, but I don't think we want to make the corners less challenging, so we need to be careful, and I know the FIA are being careful. 

"There will be changes for Miami, but I'm not sure we will see the whole raft of changes for Miami, because the format of the event makes people want to be cautious. 

"There are many suggestions which have been put forward, and I think that we have a particularly tough time going with Miami being a Sprint, because there's really little time to test anything.

"So it may well be that we try some of the ones which are a bit simpler and less risky in Miami, try some more in Montreal, and then we go to Monaco, where it is almost impossible to test anything.

"So Barcelona might be the first time we try some more of the challenging ones, I wouldn't say it is necessary to upgrades, I would say we should keep an open mind. 

"Maybe this is a continuous thing, but it should be driven by the FIA and by F1, but I don't think we should limit ourselves, and certainly, we can keep working at it."