![]() If you get a Charles Leclerc or a Max Verstappen in a midfield team, it can make a difference. “Over the next couple of years, Formula 1 will be on a much better path… where a really good, moderately-funded team, can cause a lot of trouble. “We have three teams that can win races at the moment, that’s all,” he says. With Valtteri Bottas’ pole time in qualifying at the British Grand Prix 2019 over three seconds faster than Robert Kubica’s P20 time, Brawn acknowledges that it is too big a gap for the sport to countenance, with a key objective now being to tighten the field up in 2021 by a nominal factor of around half. It’s been proposed that tyre blankets be outlawed for 2021.It’s recognised that pit stops are important in F1 and valued by fans, so as Symonds says, the plan isn’t for Pirelli to produce a super-hard, “Le Mans-type tyre that will go on and on and on”.“The high degradation target is not the way to go.” ![]() “I think we were asking completely the wrong things of Pirelli over the last two years,” adds Symonds. “We are in fairly deep consultation with Pirelli,” says Tombazis, “about how to make the tyres really step up and be in a position where they enable people to race they don’t degrade, they don’t force people to manage the tyres so much.” And with that in mind, tyres are also a key factor set to change for 2021, when Formula 1 moves from 13-inch to 18-inch rubber. But disturbed air has further knock-on effects too, chief among them being the damaging effect on a following cars’ tyres. “So we have a massive reduction of the reduction of downforce for the following car.” ![]() “ typically, from about a 50% loss of downforce for the following car at two car distances it’s down to about a 5-10% loss,” says Tombazis. But according to Tombazis, any improvements achieved in 2019 are nothing compared to what we’ll see in two years’ time, when ‘ground effect’ (downforce produced by the shaped underside of cars) will play a much bigger role in how the cars generate their downforce… ![]() The aerodynamic regulations brought in for 2019 were designed to try to remedy the issues caused by the 2017 rule changes, which saw those cars’ complicated aerodynamic designs reduce downforce for a following car by an estimated 50%. The FIA and Formula 1 has revealed how its most concrete vision of the 2021 regulations will look, designed to fundamentally reshape the make-up of Formula 1.Īhead of their final proposal in October, Ross Brawn and Pat Symonds – Formula 1’s Managing Director of Motorsports and Chief Technical Officer respectively – along with Nicholas Tombazis, the FIA’s Head of Single Seater Technical Matters, go through the four key pillars of the new regulations, and the work that’s still to be carried out ahead of their finalising. ![]()
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