2021 F1 changes

True “sustainability is not possible without public money in F1 based on the fee structure for any race host.

 

F1 to become the Billionaire Boys Club? My dad can beat-up your dad.

 

https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/73083/ferrari-develops-innovative-engine-for-2021-called-superfast.html

And ambition!
https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/73042/ferrari-reveals-behind-mercedes-bridging-that-gap-is-too-much-to-ask.html

 

Let's hope that Ferrari will be able to catch up after one year in purgatory, and be able to challenge in 2021.

 

Give them enough seat time and I bet they would get similar lap times. But adjusting from the current to the old would take some time and a lot of miles. And with the current limitations on testing, yeah, it would be difficult though I suppose their simulators could get them half way there or more

 

Mercedes have already worked hard on the 2021 car. The FIA has indicated that all cars will be required to have 10% less downforce by making changes to the floor. Mercedes, however, has compensated for this 10% elsewhere.





The floor will have to be substantially modified before 2021 in order to comply with the new rules imposed by the FIA. In addition to the floor, the diffuser at the rear of the vehicle will also be tackled.

Mercedes find compensation
According to the Italian branch of Motorsport.com, Mercedes have already found a solution to compensate for the downforce reduction. Mercedes have already tested the new developments in the wind tunnel and the results were extraordinary.

The reduction of the downforce was precisely what the FIA wanted, so that the Pirelli tyres could last longer. Without the downforce reduction, Pirelli would have had to use higher tyre pressures in the tyres, which would have reduced their grip.

 

Next years tire construction will help a lot in putting up with the high downforce levels (preventing the British GP tire failure incidents).

 

Is there something you are referring to beside the much shorter side walls as they increase wheel diameter?

 

I used the word "construction". When used in the context of tires it means how all the fibers and belts are arranged under the rubber.

 

Some more Franco Nugnes made up crap

 

Once again, the problem is the rules themselves. They haven't once made the sport more competitive nor affordable. The FIA should not be dictating car design. Not the engines, not the aero, not the tires, not the budget, not the testing. Give a displacement limit (or equivalent) a minimum weight, a crash test, and then get out of the way and let everyone go racing.

 

Ross Brawn on COVID and season 2021 - https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/154211/brawn-f1-translator-triggered-worst-covid-cluster


Formula 1 boss Ross Brawn has revealed a translator triggered the most significant COVID-19 outbreak that the series had to deal with this year.

Although Brawn didn't specify the event, it's understood that the "worst cluster" occurred at the Russian Grand Prix at Sochi in September.

Brawn praised the way the series coped with the pandemic, and also highlighted the anomaly of three out of the small group of 20 F1 drivers testing positive.

F1's organisation and the FIA introduced strict protocols for the start of the season in Austria, including a regime that saw extensive COVID-19 testing on race weekends that involved both the travelling regulars and local officials and staff at the venues.

Over 78,000 tests were conducted under FIA jurisdiction at the 17 events, and they produced just 78 positive tests, although the numbers don't include the obligatory testing between races that took away from the venues.

Sergio Perez, Lance Stroll and Lewis Hamilton all had to miss races after testing positive, representing a much higher percentage than was seen in the overall F1 numbers.

Over 1,300 people working for the FIA, F1, the teams and the media travelled to each race, not counting the F2, F3 and Porsche Supercup teams seen at some events.

"I think it's a brilliant example of how F1 in times of crisis pulls together as a complete family," Brawn told the F1 Podcast. "We spend most of our lives, or at least I did when I was competing, in trying to destroy each other.

"And then we get faced with a situation like this, and F1 comes together and excels. I'm just really proud of what everyone was able to do this year, because it seemed an almost impossible task. When I look at how things were when we started this adventure, I'm really proud."

When asked about the test results, Brawn highlighted the relatively high percentage of drivers who were infected by COVID.

"It was slightly over one in 1,000," he said. "And it's fascinating to look at those cases, because we had three drivers, which is kind of disproportionate out of 20 drivers. That's something you've got to think about.

"Of those 78 that were positive, quite a number were track workers, or people associated with the country we were in.

"I think the worst outbreak cluster we had was when a translator caught us out in one of the countries, because he was working with a group of people, translating for them.

"Then of course he came into contact with them, and we suddenly had a fierce little cluster, but we quickly got on to that.

"So very few outbreaks, amongst the teams. The numbers within the teams of mechanics and engineers was very low. Interesting exercise to study the data, and I know some of the most diligent people in F1 got caught out. I don't know where it came from."

Brawn admitted that when the revised season was planned around the new COVID protocols there were many unknowns.

"I think the thing that none of us really understood is what would happen if we started to get an outbreak, how it would be managed, could we control it could we limit it?" he said.

"And none of us know enough about the dynamics of this disease, and how it spreads. The rudimentaries are known, but the subtleties aren't known. I mean, how long do you need to be in the company of an infected person, and what you need to do around them to become infected yourself?



"So all those things were uncertain, we simply didn't know how it would develop. And I think when we had our first positive cases, that was the anxious time to know whether they could just be limited on whether the systems and protocols we put in place would be sufficient to contain the outbreaks, which did prove to be the case.

"I think everyone was pretty diligent in F1. I think we had to be on our guard as we progressed, because it was easy to get complacent, and easy to drop your guard.

"But I think the protocols we put in place, the face masks, social distancing, bubbles, it did mean that when we had cases, they didn't escalate and become uncontrollable.

"I think that was a key barrier for us to get through, to know we could actually manage it. Because it would be unrealistic to think we wouldn't have cases. But when we got them, how are we going to deal with them? And could we contain them?"

Brawn also confirmed that the COVID protocols will be applied again in 2021.

"We're not going to go into next year with a switch turned. We're going to have to carry on, and learn from what we've learned this year, and be as diligent, because the vaccines aren't going to become effective until sometime during the year, in terms of numbers," he said.

"So we're going to need to continue testing. The testing regime may change, the methodology may change, but we're going to have another year undoubtedly of having to be super diligent, and apply the protocols again."

 

We new this...but it's official now.

The AlphaTauri Formula 1 team has confirmed Yuki Tsunoda will partner Pierre Gasly in 2021, replacing Daniil Kvyat at Red Bull's sister team.

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I think I'm turning Japanese. I think I'm turning Japanese. I really think so.

 

Good stuff! Now let's see what the red bull seat does.

 

Bye Rio lol! https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/154249/f1-signs-new-fiveyear-deal-with-interlagos

Formula 1 will remain at Interlagos for another five years after a new deal was announced on Wednesday, renaming the race the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.

F1 had been due to move the race in Brazil from Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro for 2021 after agreeing a deal in principal with new promoters, pending government approval for a newly-built track.

But following environmental pressure against the construction of a new track in a forested area, and with time running out for a deal to be put in place for 2021, F1 moved to strike a deal to keep the race at Interlagos on a new long-term deal.

After local officials in Sao Paulo revealed in November they were poised to sign a new deal, F1 officially announced the new contract on Wednesday following the WMSC's approval of the 2021 calendar.

The race will be known as the Sao Paulo Grand Prix from 2021, and ensures F1 will remain at Interlagos until 2025.

 

I guess Bolsonaro doesn't approve of all that!

 

Great news

 

I fell off my chair laughing at that one... Mr Brawn, you have lost the plot if you think that. Lets remember how the other teams bitched on SF about their engine for starters!!!

 

https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/75622/start-of-formula-1-season-possible-in-bahrain-due-to-problems-in-australia.html?campname=highlighted-content&camplink=inarticle3

Change # 1 to a new season and calendar

 

There is no chance Melbourne will happen in March. Zero.

Better alternative is to reschedule to later in the year. Would love to see them try Bathurst but it doesn't have FIA Grade 1 approval...

 

It's like deja vu all over again.

 

Unique issue with the city circuit that must be constructed vs the show up and race normal venue's. One is at the 'mercy' of local government.

 

Good point. Yes I think city races will still have a hard time in 2021. Not sure there will be Monaco in May, seems still too early.

 

Interesting to see how vaccine application progress will affect city circuits. I dont see a Monaco unless the world is back to a 'normal' situation. In 2022 potentially