What is the outcome for the 2022 aerodynamic regulations?

One year after making its great aerodynamic revolution by imposing the return of ground-effect single-seaters, it's time to take stock for Formula 1. Have the promises been kept? Has racing become more attractive? Do cars follow each other better? Have the cards been re-dealt? Analysis.

Published on 21/12/2022 à 16:41

Jeremy Satis

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What is the outcome for the 2022 aerodynamic regulations?

The new aerodynamic regulations were encouraging. © Florent Gooden / DPPI

The spectacle, the dramaturgy and the emotion aroused by the end of the 2021 season, with this long-term spicy duel between Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) and Max Verstappen (Red Bull), would almost make you wonder today if it was really worth changing everything. When we know that a year later, the Dutchman took off with a cigar on his lips and his elbow to the door. However, we must not make a mistake in our analysis... the aerodynamic revolution which took place last winter was a necessity. Not in response to 2021, but rather to the previous seven years where the show left more to be desired. It would also be forgetting that last year, even the furious battles between the Briton and the Dutchman had not always succeeded in hiding the two major DNA problems of old cars: the increasingly turbulent air that 'they leave in their wake as engineers have made single-seaters more complex, and the very rapid overheating of the tires of the car that

Jeremy Satis

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