Blast from the past! Is F1 going back to the 80’s?
F1 Rules set to return to the 1980’s
F1 engineers Patrick Head and Rory Bryne has submitted their draft regulation changes for the 2013 F1 season.
With turbo engines set to return in the same year, rule changes affecting the design of the cars are to be sent to all F1 teams this week before they all meet in January for the F1 Technical Working Group meeting.
So what’s to change?
On paper, the regulations mean that we could see cars similar to that of the 1982 season.
The front and rear wings are set to become much smaller. This means less dirty air should erupt from the cars, which is currently a major problem in Formula 1.
The downforce will be clawed back from having specially shaped floors that generate large amounts of grip, without the dirty air problem of external aerodynamic devices
The cars are to be designed in a way that they aren’t more than 5 seconds a lap slower than the current specification.
Check out this story in more detail over on BBC:
F1 cars set for major changes inspired by Head & Byrne
What do you think? A step in the right direction?
Will this help improve the show or should F1 rules be left alone for longer? Please let me know!
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I think it's fantastic because it would seem that wings are largely responsible for the difficulties cars face when following each other. That's...
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#1 Jimmy@enterF1 | 21 Dec 2010, 12:31 Reply »
I remember how exciting the 2009 regulations looked on paper for overtaking and look where that got us!
No doubt it's a step in the right direction but never count out the aerodynamicists out-smarting the regs!
#2 MartyP | 21 Dec 2010, 13:06 Reply »
I think it's fantastic because it would seem that wings are largely responsible for the difficulties cars face when following each other. That's probably the biggest barrier to overtaking at the moment.
I agree with you Jimmy that I hope they avoid loopholes in the rules which allow something that ruins their work (like the double diffuser in '09).
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