This season of F1 may be the most eagerly anticipated season of all time.
Will we see the usual crowd at the forefront or will there be any surprises this season?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know there’s been a massive overhaul of the car regulations. The 2022 regulations which were originally slated for 2021 but were delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and have one major principle to allow cars to race closer.
With previous regulations, a following car would lose 35% of their downforce when racing within 20 metres of the car ahead. That loss of downforce could increase to 47% if the following car got within 10 metres of the car ahead.
The new regulations are meant to reduce the downforce lost, but F1 teams and engineers can be crafty. There’s not a single team that will design their car with this guiding principle in mind, they want their cars to be difficult to follow. So whilst they will have designed their cars within the 2022 guidelines and parameters, they will be looking for ways to disturb the air leaving the car as much as possible.
Over the past few weeks we’ve had many cars revealed, and let’s be honest most of these car reveals have been livery reveals at best. But today we are seeing the first images from winter testing, and these cars might be a closer representation of what we will see on track at Bahrain in March.
Here are a few stand out tweets from this morning, make sure to post any photos or news in the comments.
What do you think about the 2022 cars? Are there any surprises?
Will we see the usual crowd at the forefront or will there be any surprises this season?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know there’s been a massive overhaul of the car regulations. The 2022 regulations which were originally slated for 2021 but were delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and have one major principle to allow cars to race closer.
With previous regulations, a following car would lose 35% of their downforce when racing within 20 metres of the car ahead. That loss of downforce could increase to 47% if the following car got within 10 metres of the car ahead.
The new regulations are meant to reduce the downforce lost, but F1 teams and engineers can be crafty. There’s not a single team that will design their car with this guiding principle in mind, they want their cars to be difficult to follow. So whilst they will have designed their cars within the 2022 guidelines and parameters, they will be looking for ways to disturb the air leaving the car as much as possible.
Over the past few weeks we’ve had many cars revealed, and let’s be honest most of these car reveals have been livery reveals at best. But today we are seeing the first images from winter testing, and these cars might be a closer representation of what we will see on track at Bahrain in March.
Here are a few stand out tweets from this morning, make sure to post any photos or news in the comments.
What do you think about the 2022 cars? Are there any surprises?
