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Teams may get new F1 car designs ‘really badly wrong’, says Allison

Teams may get new F1 car designs ‘really badly wrong’, says Allison

F1 teams are currently putting the finishing touches to their 2022 car designs ahead of the first pre-season test that will take place at Barcelona in Spain from 23-25 February.

The new designs are a complete overhaul of the regulations, with the ground effect challengers aimed at making the racing better and closing up the grid.

But while it is too early to make any predictions about the pecking order, Allison believes the scale of the rules overhaul makes it inevitable that not everyone will get their new designs right.

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And he suggests that some outfits could face a difficult year by getting their interpretation of the new rules wrong.

Speaking in a Mercedes video that previews the 2022 rules, Allison said: “Everyone in our team, and everyone in every other team, will have done our level best to try to find a design and an approach that will be a happy match to this new regulation set.

“And we’ll all get…

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