A few days before the start of the second pre-season test session and less than a month before the official start of the 2022 World Championship, which will start on March 20 with the Bahrain GP, Formula 1 seems to be at the gates of yet another political battle from the extremely broad potential repercussions. The debate on too many ‘overweight’ cars in the Circus, launched by Helmut Marko and by the leaders of Red Bull in the days following the Barcelona tests, it would in fact be gathering support among other teams. The problem is linked to the new generation of single-seaters, built by the teams according to the directives of the new technical regulation. The minimum weight of the cars was raised to 795 kg, but many cars exceed this figure by too many kilos. A performance problem, which could be solved by raising the minimum regulation limit.
If this happens the engineers would no longer have to try in every way to ‘put their cars on a diet’, but they could keep the current configuration without problems. All agree then? Absolutely not. There are two stables in fact – McLaren And Alfa Romeo – who managed to get as close as possible to the fateful quota of 795 kilos, thus earning for their own merits a small but significant competitive advantage over the eight rivals. Now, two weeks before the start of the World Cup, their opponents are asked to give up this advantage. According to the correspondent of the Swiss newspaper Blick Roger Benoit, every team “He had known for months” of the limit of 795 kg. The Swiss journalist explained that the teams only became aware of their weight problems in Barcelona. Now, however, no one wants to try to solve them, but everyone is hoping for a ‘tweak’ to the regulation.
“We need to increase the total weight of the cars for the sake of the sport “he would have wished Christian Honrer. However, understandable resistance comes from Woking and Hinwil. “McLaren and Alfa Romeo had built their new cars in a way that would not have forced them to ‘go on a diet’ and are now being asked to forgo the benefit.“Added Benoit. This opposition could be supported by the same FIA. The International Federation in fact would have the power to veto a late change of the regulations, even if the request came from the majority of the teams. The outcome of this battle could weigh heavily in the balance of the season that kicks off on March 20.
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