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Originally Posted by Noah930
This is what happens in the off-season. Racing is life. Everything before or after is just waiting. Now get back to work to give us something to post about!
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months of waiting still left for me but this should give you something to post about
Had an interesting discussion with a F1 technical director last week and one question I asked was 'which team does he think will win the 2022 championship?'
He thought 'Ferrari' would win, answer surprised me as it wasn't his team but made a lot of sense
Ferrari have two extremely quick drivers who consistently deliver, Leclerc and Sainz could be considered the strongest driver pair. Ferrari haven't been distracted with a 2021 world championship fight so will have switched more resource earlier into the 2022 rule changes. 2021 PU spec's have been frozen until 2026 which will stabilize the PU war
In F1, aero is king, track performance is usually directly related to the amount of wind tunnel running time ie more time spent in the tunnel the faster your car goes
Due to Ferrari finishing 3rd in 2021 the team will also receive extra valuable wind tunnel time compared to Mercedes and RBR, see below article
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.how-f1s-new-sliding-scale-aero-testing-rules-work-and-what-impact-they-will.pn0sG8N4A0cjbNRbdYx8a.html
There is a chance that one team hits the sweet spot and runs away at the beginning, maybe enough to keep the other behind until the end of the season