McLaren boss Andreas Seidl has picked out one area F1’s new car rules may need improving, despite the spectacular action at the BritishGP Here's the full story ⬇️
The new ground effect machinery is allowing cars to follow each other closer, and opens the possibility for more overtaking, but some of the midfield battles have been stalled thanks to the creation of DRS trains.
If a car at the front of the pack has enough speed in the right parts of the track to hold off its pursuer, then it can lead to a boring stalemate as cars bunch up behind and are left powerless to do anything.team principal Andreas Seidl believes should be revisited. “I think that's it's a topic that we touched on in some discussions from time to time already,” explained Seidl. “And that's probably something we need to look again into with the other teams, with the FIA and F1.
“With the regulations as we have put them in place now for this year, we definitely have seen that the cars, when they are fighting each other, it's a lot better now to follow closer to each other without killing the tyre straightaway.“Depending on how this train is looking like, and which car is at the front, and if that is a car that actually can hold everyone else back, that can lead to some boring scenarios in the middle of the pack.
“I think that's something we might still have to look in to, to see what we could do there, because I think we have seen that several times already this year.”Photo by: Andy Hone /
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