The controversy about this yr’s guidelines has widened out into what is perhaps the best rule-set for the long run.
Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll, the son of crew proprietor Lawrence Stroll, mentioned the brand new guidelines have been “essentially simply so flawed”, including: “We’re nonetheless distant from correct F1 automobiles, and pushing flat-out with out excited about batteries.”
Two years in the past, FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem was pushing for a return to V8 or V10 naturally aspirated engines, and he’s identified to nonetheless be eager on the concept.
Nevertheless, on the time, the engine producers killed his plan.
And Russell defined that the choice was extra sophisticated than it seems on the floor.
The Mercedes driver mentioned: “There’s a whole lot of speak about going again to a V8. That will clearly be fairly cool, the sustainable gas subject is a implausible one, and I believe could be nice for System 1. We have to discover methods to scale back the automobiles much more, as a result of [reducing] the load of the automobiles has been a optimistic affect when it comes to the racing and the drivability, with the ability to struggle shut with each other.
“For those who have a look at the ‘glory days’ of System 1 20 years in the past the place everybody says they have been the most effective automobiles ever – and I nonetheless agree they have been most likely the good automobiles we ever noticed in System 1 within the early 2000s – there was no overtaking in any respect. So it is one thing we have to bear in mind and we want to consider for the subsequent time.”
