The tests, due to take place at the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory over the summer, will look at ways to prevent the cars taking off the ground. The F1 teams have provided full carbon rear suspension assemblies for the project, which will offer important research and analysis for both Formula One and other open-wheel racing championships.

FIA Institute’s Andy Mellor, who is leading the project, said: “There are two major concerns with car launching. One is for driver safety. The other is for protecting the crowd and race personnel. It has to be a priority keeping the cars away from the spectators and marshals.”

The FIA has put in a huge amount of work into wheel tether testing which has hugely improved safety in that area. Now, via the FIA Institute, it is working on new ways to stop car launching.

The tests, which will be performed on an external rolling road, will measure the effects of an F1 car travelling at 180 kph, colliding into the rear of another. Both nose to wheel and wheel to wheel tests can be simulated.

It is thought that the results of the tests could lead to a revision in nose, wheel and tyre geometry in Formula One and other open wheel race series.