The whistles of the public in Monza for the final race in the regime of Safety Car still ring in the ears of the leaders of F1 and Liberty Media, who obviously cannot afford similar ‘fools’ in order to ride this positive wave that the Circus is experiencing in terms of popularity as evidenced by the ‘sold out’ that it is recorded practically every race weekend with record attendance on the circuit.
Today is the news of the doubling of the Sprint weekends in 2023 from three to six. The World Motorsport Council – WMSC – has approved this decision through an electronic vote, but there are numerous issues under consideration by Liberty Media and the FIA to ensure that the public in the stands and in front of the television can experience moments of maximum entertainment. ahead of F1. On the table of the ‘defendants’ there is the Virtual Safety Car, considered potentially unfair and advantageous for some drivers and on the other hand an alternative solution to the Safety Car that deprives the audience of the thrill of the restart.
The big theme, however, under the magnifying glass in the show’s name is obviously the overtaking. The arrival of the ground-effect cars in the hope of the ‘fathers’ of the regulation had to give a glimpse of solid foundations for the abolition of the much-maligned DRS. Drivers can chase each other more easily without excessively damaging the tires with these new cars, but the wake effect has been weakened. The DRS is still necessary to assist in overtaking, but when a ‘train’ of cars is formed with the DRS available, the train remains so when the ‘locomotive’ manages to maintain its position.
How to remedy this situation? According to what was reported by the German newspaper Auto Motor und Sport, one hypothesis is to work on the activation zones of the DRS, another leads to a number of uses that the driver must manage during the race or a certain time allowed in the open wing, a solution this which would follow the ‘push to pass’ of Indycar, a category in which, depending on the type of track, the drivers have the possibility of operating a button for 150 or 200 seconds (obviously not consecutive, but in total) that increases the turbo pressure at 1650 mbar thus generating more useful power both for attacking and defending. The full-cost chase of the show could also bring down one of the levees to defend the leaders of the race, or the fact that in the first two laps of the race or after a restart it is not currently possible for the chaser to operate the mobile wing. A ban that could be eliminated by making the leadership of the race potentially ‘a rip-off’ if a Safety Car should be triggered for some reason in the final race.
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