Well, after i have done a little followup on my last blog, where i wrote a little about what i think should be done about Formula One and the fact that it's current money-eating structure, some new facts have come up.
I found out that next year there's going to be some new rules about the aerodynamics, more particularily about the wings. There are indications that, as i wished for, are going to be some substatial cuts in how many and how large wings there are going to be allowed. All those small winglets are supposedly also going to get the boot.
That's really good news, if you ask me. All those small add-on's are more dangerous than they are effective. Just think about Kovalainen's crash last weekend. Nose first inte the tirebarrier. With a little less luck than what he had, one of those little wings on the nose could just have slided along the front of the car and cut him really bad. So, therefore it have also become an issue on safety.
One of the main things thou, is that it will enhance the racingexperience. Both from a driver and a viewer point of view. Just as the ban on driveraids this season, the banning of some of the wings and winglets next season will give us more fun racing to look at. The cars will no longer become glued to the track, they will really crave a good driver to handle. Of course the return of slick tyres will counter that effect a little, but the loss of downforce while banning the wings must be countered with a bit of mechanical grip if the cars are going to stay driveable. The meaning of the groved tires was from the beginning to lessen the mechanical grip, because the way the cars had developed then, made them to quick.
The grove lessen the amount of rubbera against the asfalt, and it also catches a but of air to even more lessen the grip. Slick tires will allow the air to go smothely around the tire, and give the cars as much grip as possible.
And looking at the tests that have allready been done with the slicks, both Bridgestone, the teams and drivers are really happy with the results.
The previous decision, to grove the tires, was obciously not the right one, it was just a quickfix of a problem that have rissen ever since. More wings and greater downforce have given the cars such features that they are more or less unable to loose the grip if there are nothing on the cars that will falter.
The current fix are more or less what was needed to begin with.
