• GreatRam@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I hope this keeps bunching the field together. Looking forward to some good racing at least until the new regs

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      10 months ago

      The new regs are converging toward Formula 1 being a single-specification series. It wouldn’t shock me if the 2029 regs actually end up as a spec series.

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        10 months ago

        I don’t think the teams will allow that. A big part of the sport is showing off your engineering aptitude as a car manufacturer. People were saying the 2022 regs were gonna be too oppressive too but we saw a lot of different concepts none the less.

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          10 months ago

          I mean, I hope you’re right, but at the same time, I think that we’re seeing the regulations allow less and less freedom for innovation to the point that the teams will give up and just vote to turn F1 into a spec series. Wouldn’t shock me, if only because it would likely save the teams money.

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      10 months ago

      It’ a bit more complicated than that. The year is split into six time periods and each team must use the same % of their time allocation in each period.

      But there is a reshuffling in June and I still dont know whether those hours here in the graphic are only for the first few periods or the later ones as well

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        But there is a reshuffling in June and I still dont know whether those hours here in the graphic are only for the first few periods or the later ones as well

        Yeah this is what my doubt is as well. How can this be for all the periods in the whole year of things change mid year. This seems more like the allocation in the 23-24 period.

        Edit : looking at past allocation, this is for the 1st part of 2024