Next season's F1 cars may not be slow as feared
Oct.23 - Formula 1 cars may not be as slow as some feared in 2022.
There is no doubt that the field will be generally slower next year as Formula 1 enforces all-new technical rules designed to make overtaking easier.
Championship leader Max Verstappen admits he will miss "the laptimes and the speed".
But what he will not miss is that "you can't follow each other" with the current generation of cars.
However, F1's chief technical officer, Pat Symonds, has played down earlier fears that the 2022 cars will be many seconds slower per lap.
"We can imagine that the new cars will be on average only half a second per lap slower than the current ones at the beginning of the season," he told Auto Motor und Sport.
"And it could be a tie by the end of the season. I say 'could' because we don't know yet what pace of development these regulations will allow."
It is believed the medium-fast to high-speed corners could actually be taken faster by the 2022 cars due to the aerodynamic 'Venturi' effect.
Top speeds will then be lower.
Symonds insists: "We're not worried about the lap times. The primary concern is about better racing."
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Only half a second, a positive surprise since 3-3.5 was the initial estimation two years ago given by Nikolas Tombazis.
At the time, I hoped at least a second closer, i.e., 2-2.5, so I’m not complaining. Racing quality, of course, matters more.
By April they will be level speed with a bunch of engineering staff self adulation.
well someone from merc said that only tyres are going to slow them by 2 seconds, from what i can remember
also cars are going to be even heavier
so im expecting much slower times, than what we have today...
Hype and crap
It has started already