The big news for the 2022 Formula 1 season is the introduction of the new technical regulation that has upset the concept of single-seaters. From this year, in fact, the ground effect cars will be back on track and this revolution was desired by the leaders of Formula 1 to improve the show.
In fact, in the intentions of the managers, the new shapes of the single-seaters should allow those who follow not to lose aerodynamic load and thus remain in the wake without suffering harmful effects.
One of the big question marks of this 2022 is whether Liberty Media’s target will actually be hit. Ross Brawn intervened on the subject and provided rather interesting ideas and strongly denied the hypothesis that some teams could create single-seaters designed specifically to prevent those who follow from not staying in the wake.
“I think any negative effects on the ability to follow another car will be an accidental consequence of the teams’ pursuit of performance.”
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari F1-75
Photo by: Ferrari
“I don’t think any team has intentionally set out to damage the trail so that another car can’t follow. There aren’t enough resources. The main objective is the search for lap time “.
“In any case, it could happen that there may be some difficulties in staying in the slipstream, but not at the level seen with last year’s cars. If we were to register a 5% worsening compared to our forecasts, we will still be far ahead of where we were with the cars of the previous generation ”.
Jason Sommerville, an aerodynamicist who moved to the FIA, underlined the thinking of Ross Brawn. According to Sommerville it is possible for teams to actively influence the slipstream but such a choice would run counter to the pursuit of performance.
“We’ve often speculated about this. We met one of the top teams recently and asked them what their trail was like. This exam is something we have thoroughly analyzed over the past four years.”
“The teams’ priority is clearly performance, but it is fair to say that their work so far has not affected the wake. From the feedback we are receiving the development and performance that the teams are finding do not go against our aspirations or quality terms. of the wake “.
“What we don’t know yet is how sensitive the cars will be in following, but even so, with the indications we have, we are still aligned in terms of objectives.”
The same line of thinking was also expressed by Nikolas Tombazis, confident that the teams will focus exclusively on making their cars faster.
“Clearly the aerodynamicists will always work for the best performance of their car in relation to their competitors.”
Valtteri Bottas, Alfa Romeo C42
Photo by: Davide Cavazza
“The way development is done in both the wind tunnel and CFD does not provide any benefit to a team in designing a car just to sabotage the following. The primary goal is to make sure your car is as fast as possible. “.
“We think that even with the development of the single-seaters our target will not be upset. There may be some deterioration, but hopefully not massive”.
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