Formula 1 team principals have fired a warning shot across the bows of the sport’s decision makers about making the rules on future car design too prescriptive.
The FIA, Liberty Media and team bosses are currently deep in discussion about changes to the sporting, business and technical regulations that will take effect from 2021.
A particular focus is on improving the on-track competition by allowing cars to run closer together which means changes to aerodynamic rules. At the same time, attempts to cut costs is leading to a push for standardised parts.
As a result, teams fear that they could lose the freedom to innovate and leave the grid full of identical ‘cookie cutter’ cars.
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“I’m just a bit scared that if the room of freedom is too small at the end, we will end up with [something] like a monotype,” Alfa Romeo boss Frederic Vasseur said. “Except it won’t be a monotype, and we will have to spend millions for this.”
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said that he doubted any of the aero experts in the sport were feeling “particularly excited” about the current proposals as they stood.
“There’s probably a few long faces in the aero department,” he said. “And that’s not just unique to Red Bull.
“[These rules] raise some questions which will no doubt be put forward in the coming meetings, which we seem to be having endless amounts of. We will see where they end up.”
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Haas F1 team boss Gunther Steiner was another of the team bosses to call the new rules “too prescriptive”, but Renault’s Cyril Abiteboul was more in favour of the approach as it was currently shaping up.
“I think it’s not bad to start with some things that are fairly prescriptive,” Abiteboul commented.
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