The time lag of ideas that offers intrigue over F1's future fight
The pecking order in 2022's Formula 1 season may look pretty static as the season draws to a close, but the unique nature of the cost cap means that preparation for next season takes precedence. New developments are being pushed back to 2023, which could mask the technical development war ongoing...
Formula 1 car development under the cost cap regime is a world away from how things were done in the decades before.
Rewind the clock just a few years, and if teams had big enough budgets, then they would bring upgrades as quickly as they could make them. There were paddock whispers a few years ago (perhaps an urban myth, perhaps true) of a race-winning team being so aggressive with its bid to bring developments that some new front wings were only finished in a special workshop on a plane on the way to the Japanese Grand Prix...
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