Racecar Engineering

All that glitters

Surely this is the most nerve racking, yet exciting time for F1 design teams in years? The long-awaited new breed of Formula 1 cars being revealed as I write do, actually, present quite major differences in appearance, even if camouflaged to some extent by the launch liveries and acknowledging the desire for retention of secrecy concerning some features.

The ridiculous and hugely costly to develop bargeboard arrays have been banned, and the 2022 cars look sleeker and less bizarre as a result, if not quite as stunning as the futuristic images doing the media rounds a couple

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