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Originally Posted by Adam43
The idea of relatively more underbody was to help the cars follow each other.
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I know.
But reasoning was flawed.
Basically the root of the problem is that no one wants to reduce downforce and cornering speed.
They are in love with the idea that these are the fastest cars in the world etc. They are, in sustained cornering speed, because of the high downforce.
But that affects the spectacle and the competitiveness of the racing on track.
F1 is competitive all right, but it's more a technical competition between the engineering teams rather than the drivers.
And this set of regulations have amplified that fact, not reduced it.
That in turn leaves us with races that relatively produce few changes on track.
Artificial means like DRS enable passes but unless there is a major incident or issue there is little relative change.
Look at Miami.
Leclerc finished where he started but had he started higher he would have finished higher because he could be faster over a lap than Alonso.
Only Hamilton and Verstappen moved into the top seven.
Gasly moved out, from 5th down to 8th, Magnussen moved from 4th down to tenth.
Ocon went from 8th to 9th.
The only shift from the ten was Bottas moving from 10th to 11th with Hamilton moving into the top ten.
Mclaren wasn't a lot different from where they started.
Relative to the others nor were Hass, Williams, or Alfa Romeo.
If this race and Baku were the measures of the success of the new regulations (hopefully they are not) they have failed to deliver better racing.