F1 2025 - News/Regulation change/Developments

Mexico will be another play for RedBull with qualy being critical if the wing/downforce levels correlate as they have for Baku and Monza.

Why DRS has been even more ineffective at Monza and Baku in F1 2025

2025's low-downforce packages, seen at Monza and Baku, have been characterised by wing elements with lower angles-of-attack and shallower camber to garner more straightline speed. The current floors generate sufficient downforce in the corners now to offer the balance between lower levels of drag and the tractive force needed to break out of the corners quickly.

The efficiency gains with the low-drag wings, according to Mercedes' trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin, has perhaps contributed to the processional nature of this year's Monza and Baku races.

"With these regs, because so much performance comes from the floor, it's been driving down the size of rear wings," Shovlin confirmed. "So now you're getting to a stage where what would have previously been called the Monaco wing barely appears at any circuits now.

"It used to be the case that was what you were running in Budapest and you'd be running it in Mexico. So generally, people are putting smaller wings on, they create less disturbance so the tow effects are smaller, and then also with a smaller wing you've got less DRS effect.

"That's one of the things in Monza – there's barely any DRS effect because the wing is so efficient in its high-downforce state that there's very little drag to get rid of."

 

'Don't reinvent F1': Leclerc dismisses reverse grids, backs V8 push
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc weighs in on the debate over Formula 1 experimenting with its weekend format, and a move to louder engines in the future

 

Needless, idiotic and easily cured all this is:

The hidden F1 war that's become an 'insane' battleground

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/the-hidden-f1-war-thats-become-an-insane-battleground/

Welcome to the world of F1 2025’s pitlane games, where getting the right place in the queue for qualifying has become a big under-the-radar battle.
Success and failure for teams and drivers rests on picking the perfect spot in the traffic jam of cars that leave the pitlane for every qualifying run.

 

So the new fans and their lack of knowledge or attention span are rewarded. Shut it Stefano. You are the problem now.

F1 CEO: History "not enough" to keep classic venues on the calendar
Stefano Domenicali says "new fans" have short memories and neither know nor care about the difference between Monaco and Las Vegas. Is this a message and, if so, to whom?

 

I can't stand that speccy idiot. Company yes-man

 

That's his 10th "The new generation are fools with short Tiktok-brain attention spans, so we have to cater the product to them" statement.

Here's a proposal for him. How about a 3-way splitscreen during the race. One screen for the race, one for Subway surfers gameplay and one for slot machines with flashy lights and loud sounds? Afterall they have short memories and attention spans.

Maybe they should incorporate some of the Formula E gimmicks as well? Fan boosts and Mario kart-style boost pad zones

 

People are attending races in good numbers with good TV audience numbers as well and we should cater to the new fans who clearly are attending / watching. How does that make sense to run his mouth in the face of profits and large audiences - NOT ALL NEW etc. They are attempting to alter something that is clearly working. They are utterly delusional in the face of FACTS.