However, there remains a firm conviction that, when the new F1 cars are unleashed in battle for the first time in Bahrain, the new regulations will hit the target of allowing the racing to be better.
And, while it is inevitable that some details will have to be cleaned up over the long haul, there is a degree of confidence that F1 is not set for a repeat of the 2009 scenario – when new rules aimed at helping overtaking failed to hit the mark.
What went wrong in 2009?
The last time that F1 rewrote the regulations in an effort to improve the racing and generate more overtaking was 2009.
Whilst much of the work that was done by the Overtaking Working Group (OWG) for those rules did help improve things, there were also some major unintended consequences that meant their efforts were quickly undone by the teams.
Brawn BGP 001 2009 double diffuser detail view
Photo by: Giorgio Piola
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