The "new era" of Formula 1, with the return of ground effect cars, began in 2022 and will evolve and refine year by year. In fact, there will be many changes to the technical regulation for next season, most of which are aimed at countering porpoising.
Il outer edge of the bottom , minimum section of the diffuser will stand up of 15 and 10 millimeters respectively. The goal is to slow down the performance growth of the single-seaters as much as possible. The first change, according to FIA technical director Nikolas Tombazis, will make you lose to the teams approx 15-20 load points.
Put simply, this will slow the cars down by half a second per lap. Deficit, however, which will be easily recovered with the physiological winter improvements that are made every year. Cars that we will see on track next season will Than we equal to those of 2022, if not faster.
However, each team designs its car around a specific basic concept and therefore will be affected differently by technical modifications. As Mike Elliott (Mercedes technical director) recently explained to the editors of Race car engineering, teams that run their cars very low will get bigger benefits from changes to the fund.
There will certainly be a lot of speculation on the matter in the coming months, but it will only be the first race in Bahrain (March 3-5) that will give a definitive answer about the hierarchies on the grid.
SOURCE: Passion formula
