FIA Throw Another Spanner For 2021

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Formula One celebrates 70 years this month and the sport is being meddled with way too much now. DNA of Formula One is speed and development using whatever means possible.

Next season in Formula One their are new regulations to go along with the budgetary caps. I am not a fan of where the sport is heading as research and development will be the loser after all is said and done. Who cares how much is spent if the team can afford it. To be the best it costs as you also need to employ the best.

In 2021 the FIA have added new measures which I understand is trying to make the teams more even , but at the same time punishing those that are doing well. I find the whole thought process a little communistic in it's approach. Now a new handicap system has been introduced for the teams wind tunnel usage. Not all teams had this luxury in the past and full sized cars were not allowed and only scaled down models were permitted.

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Mercedes are so efficient reducing the hours will not hurt them.

Currently the top teams can do what they want with their models testing night and day if required. The new ruling is that if you are at the top of the constructors table you will be allotted the least time compared to the ones struggling at the bottom who will be allowed more time.

Next season will be taken from the finishing positions of this season until the 30th June when that seasons table is then applied. If a team is allowed 60 hours per week as the base entry level every position above that will lose 5% of the allotted time. 10 teams at 5% drops would mean someone like Mercedes would lose 45 % of the initial time allowed which is 27 hours of development time which is a fair chunk.

I think this is negative and stupid as what does the FIA want.No team is ever going to be equal and this goes against the very DNA that Formula One should be striving for. The sport is known for it's innovation and creativity yet they are trying to prevent this. All that is going to happen is more and more research will happen on computers and this will make little to no difference overall. If you have the leading experts in design and innovation in your team they will find another way.

I just don't get their thinking as they should be encouraging more development without restrictions. Imagine telling an athlete he can't train on certain days of the week in order to let other athletes have a chance of trying to beat him. The FIA are up to something which isn't quite clear to me at the moment and will come out eventually. I think they may regret all the fiddling as teams could easily break away and form their own competition if this carries on with more red tape and strange rulings.

I don't know what more the FIA can do to try and make the smaller teams stronger. Those teams just need to improve on who they recruit from drivers through to specialists in their respective fields.There is very little one can do on aero dynamics anyway as it has to be passed as legal by the FIA first. In some ways I am wondering who is benefiting most from these changes and if EX Ferrari and Chairman of the FIA is trying to prevent Mercedes from improving anymore. It is a known fact Mercedes improve by seconds over the course of a season leaving other teams having to keep up.