Formula One teams have agreed to provide confidential aerodynamic data to Ross Brawn's technical department in order to help shape the future of the sport's regulations.
Since joining F1's management structure as managing director of motorsports, Brawn has built a research team to better understand the impact of car aerodynamics on racing. The department is headed up by former Williams head of aerodynamics Jason Somerville and has been working behind the scenes with CFD models of Manor's 2017 car, which was developed to the current regulations but never raced due to the team's collapse over the winter.
Now that the 2017 season has finished, F1's current teams have also agreed to provide their CFD data from 2017 so that the project can continue to develop a better understanding of why F1 cars struggle to follow each other.