Post by Lee on Mar 4, 2019 12:50:54 GMT
Formula 1 is planning changes and if those changes are a success, it will be closer, more competitive and more exciting.
Everyone involved in the sport has known for years that one of its biggest problems is that the cars cannot easily race closely together. Now, F1's bosses have set themselves the task of addressing this in time for a major reset of the many aspects of the sport in 2021, and they believe they are getting somewhere. Pat Symonds and his small team of former F1 engineers at the central London headquarters of the sport's owners Liberty Media have been looking at ways of solving a problem that has haunted the sport for decades.
The idea that the solution to the overtaking problems experienced by current cars was to produce a greater proportion of the car's total downforce from the underbody has been touted as a panacea by some for a number of years and is an approach other branches of motorsport have taken. Drivers of IndyCars and endurance prototype racing cars have been saying for a while that F1 should head in that direction, too, because it is much easier to race closely in those cars than in F1 cars.
Everyone involved in the sport has known for years that one of its biggest problems is that the cars cannot easily race closely together. Now, F1's bosses have set themselves the task of addressing this in time for a major reset of the many aspects of the sport in 2021, and they believe they are getting somewhere. Pat Symonds and his small team of former F1 engineers at the central London headquarters of the sport's owners Liberty Media have been looking at ways of solving a problem that has haunted the sport for decades.
The idea that the solution to the overtaking problems experienced by current cars was to produce a greater proportion of the car's total downforce from the underbody has been touted as a panacea by some for a number of years and is an approach other branches of motorsport have taken. Drivers of IndyCars and endurance prototype racing cars have been saying for a while that F1 should head in that direction, too, because it is much easier to race closely in those cars than in F1 cars.
