The 2021 season is coming to an end and the pilots are already starting to let some of it shine through nostalgia regarding the performance of the current single-seaters, which have reached a truly remarkable peak of performance. Lando Norris and Sergio Perez have hinted at some doubts about the ‘fun’ that awaits the drivers in 2022, while Max Verstappen has reduced the matter simply to the fact that the cars of the next championship will be just a little bit slower.
A thesis on which he does not entirely agree Pat Symonds, a former engineer working for Benetton and Williams, among others, who was part of the pool of technicians who studied the technical sporting regulations that will come into force in 2022. “We expect cars that are half a second slower at the start of the season, a margin that could then be bridged at the end of the year. It is difficult to estimate the performance growth because we do not know how the teams will react and evolve. It will also depend a lot on the tracks, because thanks to the ground effect the cars will be faster in the medium-high mileage corners. The 18-inch Pirellis will also do their part in offering more performance by helping cars and drivers to make up for the time that, for example, will be lost on the straight due to the greater resistance to the forward movement that the single-seaters will oppose “Symonds said according to the German newspaper Auto Motor und Sport.
It is precisely this issue that worries the FIA and the technical managers not a little. If any team were to find effective solutions to ‘dispose of’ the air flow, however, excessively disturbing the cars that follow this fact could lead the Federation to to forbid the solution in question because it goes against the spirit of the regulation. At that point, however, it would be rather complicated for the ‘punished’ team to correct the project underway a few weeks before the start of the championship. Otmar Szafnauer, interviewed by FormulaPassion.it, had underlined with regard to the performance of the 2022 cars that: “I think the cars for next season have a different aerodynamic philosophy. I think on some circuits they will be significantly slower and on others they will be on the same pace or marginally faster. It all depends on which track is being analyzed, but on some they will be between two and two and a half seconds slower, while on others not so much “.
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