Whiting: F1 must continue to work on overtaking
Apr.18 - F1 is pushing ahead with efforts to improve overtaking.
After Australia, the lack of passing in formula one again became a hot topic. But then the races in Bahrain and China were substantially better.
At the same time, it emerges that the strategy group this week discussed potential aerodynamic changes to the 2019 cars that might make overtaking easier.
The FIA confirmed after the meeting involving teams, Jean Todt and Chase Carey in Paris that a decision on the changes is due "once research being conducted by the FIA, in consultation with the teams, has been concluded".
F1 race director Charlie Whiting said that although Bahrain and China were better races, F1 still needs to look into the matter of overtaking.
"I think we should continue the discussion on this topic," he said.
"We saw two good races in a row, but in my opinion it's quite clear that the difficulty with overtaking remains. So this work needs to be continued."
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Whiting, change overtaking? Your joking right? He has been blabbing the SAME talking points ever since the day he started, and look where we are at. What F1 one needs is to work on car parity, make the cars even in other words make them competitive with the next car. YOU CANT have a series where the cars pass and be passed while racing a VW against a Ferrari and this is what they are doing.
The only way to do this is too take away the advantage of spending 1 billion/year VS 10 million a/year, make all that money they spent not work by making rule compliance very attainable by the companies that spend only 10 mill. That means taking away the complexity that these teams spend way too much money on and that equals the man hours, the HIGH DOLLAR men hours. Hear is just one example. The front wing! Make the rule package that is SIMPLIFIED but can still be interpreted in alternate ways. OK! Just look at the wing. Just a regular wing on and airplane, how many different ways in designing it but yet it is ONE SIMPLE PIECE, NOT 15! Take away the countless man hours that it takes to design and test, make all of the 1000 highly payed workers jobs away.
F1 cars are so complex that they have nullified there (F1) own prestige! How do we know they are really that cool? we cant see any of it! All we see is only 15-20 cars scattered around a track. doing all they can to to catch the car that is 18 seconds in front of him but yet they have the coolest $100,000 front wings!
OH and back to my original point, Charley doing something? He has had enough time! It time to hire some one that has the power and COMMON SENSE to do the job... Give him a year to come up with a package and every-time he says there is some one or something blocking him "get rid of it" AND if the car owners don't like it tell them to go some where else as there are more that enough people out there that will jump at the chance to start a COMPETITIVE F1 team at ONLY 10-15 Million dollars a year to run!
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