Marko Hanželic
A pandemic new coronavirus, which also drastically affected Financial situation Formula 1, the teams agreed to postpone the completely new regulations for one year, to 2022, to continue to use their current chassis and carried out development work on cars with with a single token.
Frederic Vasseur, Alfa Romeo, believes that these measures were crucial to keeping his team afloat, although he says: "It's never easy to take a step like that because you're always a little scared or maybe some other team isn't having an added advantage with that."
In an interview for a German web portal Motorsport-Total.com je Vasseur said: “We were in such a difficult situation that we simply had to agree to limit costs. However, we can imagine that such a step was even more difficult for many teams than for us. ”
"If you feel like you're heavily behind others during testing in Barcelona, you're not exactly thrilled with the idea of freezing car development for the next 18 months," he says French. However, he is grateful that austerity measures have been taken, "Because I'm not sure if we would have survived otherwise."
At the political level, the pandemic has generally made great progress, he continues Vasseur. “Group cohesion and solidarity” they proved themselves in difficult times: "So many things have happened in such a short time that I think it was like a revolution in the mindset of Formula 1."
"We have achieved much more in a few weeks than in the last ten years - by lowering the cost cap, regulations have changed and the fact that FOM has run a 17-race calendar in a few weeks also proves the flexibility of all F1 teams," he adds Vasseur.
