Since its introduction in the distant 2011, Drag reduction system, Better known as DRS, has generated conflicting opinions among fans of Formula 1: there are in fact those who have welcomed the innovation considering it necessary to promote action on the track, and those who have identified in the mobile wing system an artifice that was going to affect the purity of the battles between the pilots, facilitating too much, in certain cases, the conquest of overtaking.
Despite the recent introduction of the new ground-effect single-seaters, capable of facilitating pursuits between cars without excessively overheating the tires, and thus taking 'body-to-body' combat to a higher level, there does not seem to be the conditions to proceed today to the elimination of the mobile wing from the single-seaters of Formula 1. On the occasion of Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix last Sunday, in fact, for most of the event the race direction did not allow the use of DRS for safety reasons related to an asphalt still considered too wet, and this made it difficult for the drivers, who were going faster than the cars in front of them, to overtake them.
If at the beginning of the year, therefore, there was talk of evaluating the quality of the action on the track to consider a possible exclusion of the DRS in the short term, at the moment it still seems that the mobile wing is too important to remove.
La FIA however, as he often demonstrates, he looks far ahead; in fact, it would be evaluating the removal of the mobile wing in the long term, more precisely in the year 2026, precisely on the occasion of the regulatory revolution that is making the leaders of the premier class discuss so much in this period. To comment on the subject DRS was the aerodynamics chief of the FIA Jason Somerville, which declares: “I think the DRS is a very adaptive characteristic, it depends a lot on the circuit. It can be added or removed. I think most of us would like, in the long run, to phase it out if possible. But we didn't think it was right to do it overnight with these new regulations”. With regards to 2026, the engineer of the Federation also expresses himself on the possible physiognomy of the future single-seaters: “For the machine of 2026 we are looking into different solutions, and it may be that the DRS doesn't play such an important role in the concept of those cars."
SOURCE: FormulaPassion
