Ross Brawn is happy to get rid of the 2021 F1 cars, saying they were far from impressive according to him.
The new regulations for the sport will come into effect in 2022, meaning the cars will be very different to the ones fans saw this past season. There will be a lot of changes to the new cars, something the F1 personality is a big fan of.
The current bunch of cars are exquisite pieces of machinery, but they are also very complex and hard to work with. One of the big changes the new regulations will bring is simplicity, something the higher-ups seem to like.
Brawn is happy to get rid of the 2021 F1 cars, and said that they were not close to the best racing cars he had seen.
“I think it depends on what your definition is of the ultimate Formula 1 car,” he told F1TV’s Tech Talk, as quoted by Planet F1.
“If it’s the fastest, possibly. If it’s the best racing car, no. I think these cars are far too critical when they are close to each other.
“They are far too critical if they touch a kerb because a piece flies off and then they don’t work anymore. So they are incredible devices…I mean, the complexity of them is amazing.”
Good, but not the best
“It’s the methodologies they now have with reiterative software, which just keeps checking and checking and checking until they arrive at the ideal design for a specific area of the car,” Brawn added.
“And every piece is critical to every other piece, and when one piece gets knocked off – because they are racing cars after all – it doesn’t work properly.
“That’s been one of the focuses on the new car, that we try to make them a bit more robust, a little simpler, a little less critical.
“No doubt the teams will complicate the concept, but then I think we can pull it back again.
“So they are fascinating and incredibly impressive designs, but actually not very good racing cars.”
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