Formula 1’s chief technical officer has revealed new details of the biggest overhaul of the series’ regulations in a decade.

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    8 months ago

    A lot of people don’t realize a major objective of technical regulations is to intentionally slow the cars down and keep them below a particular speed.

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      8 months ago

      I’ll be surprised if these cars get over 250 km/h at their fastest. Then again, I don’t have access to their testing data, so take that with an ocean of salt.

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        8 months ago

        Honestly I expect the overall laptime to be about the same as current after a couple seasons. I’m just guessing too though.

        They’ll probably gain some speed in low/medium speed corners, and lose speed in high speed sections. Although additional active-aero will help some.

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        8 months ago

        They still have access to 1000 BHP for short periods, while weighing less and having less downforce that will almost certainly result in less drag for most cars. I would not expect peak speed to be that much slower than now, just average speed over the lap.

        Sure the drop to 6 gears from 8 (if it goes ahead) is going to hurt but not being able to use all 1000 BHP on the straight at somewhere like Monza means you’ll just be a sitting duck all day long, RB have shown that when they had their biggest DRS advantage.

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      Yup. They’ll start off much slower but after a few years they’ll be rapid again.