F1 News: RB and Alpine pass spot software inspections by FIA

The RB and Alpine F1 teams were subject to spot inspections from the FIA regarding on-car software, and both passed with flying colors.

The FIA will periodically select a car at random for more detailed inspections beyond the standard ones of a race weekend, with two cars selected following the Canadian Grand Prix, those being the RB of Yuki Tsunoda and Esteban Ocon’s Alpine.

“After the race car numbers 31 (Ocon) and 22 (Tsunoda) were chosen for more extensive inspections,” the report from the stewards began.

“Subject to these inspections was the on-car software. In detail, the following checks were performed:

“Car connection available to FIA via jump battery as per TR Article 8.5.1.

“Software program files uploaded from ECU matched those submitted for homologation.

“All files submitted by each team relating to the electronics section of TD 010F checked against on car versions:

“CAN configurations.

“FIA DTV, including whitelist parameters and FIA fixed parameters.

“Driver defaults (random selection checked from each car).

“Race data supplied by team cross-checked against FIA offloaded data.

“All checks were found to be in conformance with the 2024 Formula One Technical Regulations.”