Marko Hanželic
The dust he has with his crazy finale lifted this year’s Formula 1 season, has yet to settle down, but the teams are already focused on next season. V Abu Dhabi they also concluded after the race with two days of testing of 18-inch tires, which will be used from next year onwards. Shortly afterwards, he moved to factories and prepared for season 2022.
But they will not only be new bikes, even race cars will get completely a different image. This is the biggest rule revolution since 2017 and no one can yet predict what the overall standings will look like after the first races. We'll see another duel between Mercedes in Red Bullom? What is he doing Ferrari? Can anyone else be surprised, much like in 2009 it succeeded Brawn?
Team boss Mercedes Toto Wolff believes in greater diversity in next season. "I think we will definitely be closer together next year because we all work with practically the same budget," he said Wolff before the crazy finale c Abu Dhabi.
Larger teams should still have the advantage “Because of the investments they have made in the past. However, I would not write off a single team that started developing a new car early enough. It will definitely be exciting. A new era is beginning, ” he says Wolff.
Above all, the new rules should make it easier tracking the race car thus enabling closer racing and more close duels “Bike by bike”. It could be in the long run DRS has even become redundant, but at least in 2022 the folding wing will still be part of Formula 1 in any case.
Wolff believes that next year we will not watch the duel of two superior teams as this year. “I think we will have exciting races and more teams that can win. I hope the race cars are exciting. We need to look at the next year positively and look forward to what lies ahead, ” he adds Wolff.
