While preparing the regulations, which will come into force in 2022, Liberty Media’s Formula 1 owners spoke of a “revolution” that would radically improve the overtaking situation, when optimized aerodynamics allow drivers to follow rival cars closer.
For this the “ground effect” was returned, most of the downforce is now generated by the bottom, but the effect of these changes turned out to be more modest than expected. On some routes, the number of DRS zones did not have to be reduced, as indicated earlier, but rather increased.
Seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton thinks overtaking has only become a little easier.
Lewis Hamilton «Overtaking has become a little easier than on the previous generation machines, but not as easy as they said. I hope that with the correction of the rules more can be achieved in the future.
Last year we had a lot of problems with the accumulation of cars on the straights and the turbulence of the airflow behind the opponent’s car. Now there is no build-up, there are fewer problems with persecution, but this does not mean that they do not exist at all.
Source: F1 News
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