Horner appears to have bought Alpine, and sacked the entire senior management and technical team!
That’ll be fun as they’re switching to Mercedes engines and gearboxes this year.
Toto might give him a four cylinder diesel…
Anybody posting about Michael Schumacher’s death (as posted on Social Media), do some research, give your head a wobble, then expect a ban.
This season will develop in a most interesting way IMO.
Firstly the probably biggest rule change for the chassis since skirts got banned from 1983 and also a significant engine rule change.
The aero changes are probably far more suited to the current way of working than ground effect was. In a competiion with almost no track testing having rules which were extremely sensitive to aero-elasticity led to most teams being shocked by, and some never mastering, porpoising because it is not predicted by either CFD or wind tunnel testing.
Also having aero super sensitive to areas where mesh size is crucial and limiting CFD running meant the theoretical analyses were pretty untrustworthy from day 1 but most, probably all younger than Adrian Newey, would not have expected what they got.
These rules are pretty insensitive to height effects on floor flow and aero-elasticity so there is a better chance the engineers get what they expect IMO, and that simulation can be closer to reality in the aero map.
The engine rule leading to more use of electricity will be fascinating too. An electric motor is in all objective ways superior to a piston engine so it will be interesting how they deploy the combination. Lots for both engineers and drivers to optimise.
Lovely but maybe a fair bit slower lap times but faster and less stable on the straight bits.
I very much hope it is good.
Been watching Ted Kravitz’ talking heads roundups of the Barcelona testing, and the driver reactions vary between enthused and downright bubbling - within the constraints of what PR will allow them to say - leaving the impression that from their POV these cars are more entertaining to drive, which from this side of the screen should help with the entertainment factor.
Impressed that RBR seem to have hit the ground running with their ‘Ford’ branded powerplant, too. Dropping the MGU-H I suppose simplifies things somewhat, with presumed gains in reliability?