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Originally Posted by legion
It'll be a hell of a lot of fun to look back at this page in a year if all of us turn out to be way wrong...
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Believe me, I would dearly love to be proven wrong.
Zeke does bring up the one (and a very significant) motivating factor for the teams to put some effort into 2020 - the payouts based on position in the championship. That will certainly serve to buoy their efforts.
They are, however, still significantly hamstrung by the tires and the aero package. Try as they might to actually "race", physics are rather inviolable. The teams will face the same limitations they dealt with in 2019. No one is going to find, at this late date in the rules cycle, some "magic" solution that overcomes any of this. And if they do, the FIA will slam that door on them immediately. We won't see a breakout of the caliber of the Braun Racing / Jenson Button championship year. While I would love to see it, I see 2020 as more or less a "placeholder". Maybe some shuffling in the "best of the rest", but certainly not among the top teams.