Sunday’s race featured plenty of action through the field, including a thrilling battle at the front as Max Verstappen made a series of ultimately unsuccessful attempts to take the lead from Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc before brake issues dropped him back.
Reflecting on the dawn of F1’s new era, Brawn cautioned that Sakhir was only the first event with the new cars, and stressed that the FIA will now make a proper analysis to see exactly how following and overtaking have been improved by the new aerodynamic package.
“It is a sample based on one, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves,” said Brawn, when asked by Autosport if the regulations had achieved the desired goals. “But we have seen no negatives today, which is a great thing.
“I think now once the drivers have debriefed and the FIA start to look at all the data we can see how we have been able to move.
“But the old cars were horrible, so we have been able to make that step. I think we have shown that the…
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