Ross Brawn says F1 are considering introducing new aerodynamic 'tricks' to the sport, including reverse DRS.
“It’s still got to be sorted to see how that can be done, and if it can be done safely and predictably. But, active aerodynamics, we semi have them at the moment with DRS, as DRS is active aerodynamics.“If you have active aerodynamics, then of course you could affect the car in front. You could have a proximity [that] once you get within a certain degree, the car in front loses a little bit of downforce and you gain a little bit of downforce.
“We concluded in the end that was better placed under the FIA, because they would have total access to data,” he said about Sommerville’s move there. “There’d be no confidentially concerns. Not that there were, but now we’re in the implementation phase, Jason and his people need to see real car data. And within the FIA they can do that.
Formula 1 purists were up in arms when the sport introduced DRS, the Drag Reduction System, in 2011 to make overtaking easier. This year alone there were mixed reactions to DRS, fans questioning whether if it was too powerful in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia as Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen played a game of cat and mouse, and then berating Race Control for taking their time activating it at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix leading to a rather boring Sunday.
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