F1 technical director Pat Symonds believes that “Rule revisions were successful”
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The 2022 F1 season will see a newly set of implemented rules and regulations that have been put to use to ensure that there’s a sense of fair competition in the grid in order to avoid just the top two teams to establish their dominance. The new technical rules and regulations will also help the brand new cars that have been designed in accordance to the regulations to be more efficient when it comes to the skill of overtaking.
In the Bahrain phase of pre-season testing that concluded the last week, recently crowned world champion, Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen was one of the drivers who consciously drove very close to the car in front of him in order to see how it influenced his car. It was not a race to acquire rank, but to be used to see if the new rules will actually make overtaking easier, if you can closely monitor your adversary, and if repelling an attack is more or less delicate.
F1’s technical director, Pat Symonds, reckons that one of the objectives of the new regulations, allowing vehicles to trail each other intimately, has been met. The British engineer was pleased with the outcome . In essence, he thought the entire guidelines were on the correct road well before he arrived in Bahrain.
Pat Symonds believes that the new regulations have been doing justice to the grid
Pat Symonds, who has worked with Benneton and Renault in the past, has taken the feedback of all the drivers on the grid during their Bahrain stint of testing. He was eager to know how the newly implemented rules and regulations have been working out in the favour of the drivers, especially the midfield teams.
“Everyone who had tried it said it was much easier to follow. Albon was the one who gave me the most interesting answer: ‘I had to reprogram myself. I couldn’t imagine following the car in front so closely without problems’,” added the British engineer.
Symonds is clearly looking forward to the first Grand Prix of the 2022 F1 season which takes place this week in Bahrain. The race will take place in the Bahrain International Circuit, in the heart of the Sakhir desert. Then it’ll be apparent if pursuing and overtaking are as seamless as they were throughout the tests.
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