Robin Frijns calls it good that FIA, F1 and the teams are trying to fix some “mistakes” in the current regulations. “It’s good that they’re doing something. But fixing everything won’t work,” he writes in his column in FORMULE 1 Magazine.
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You can find Robin Frijns’ full column in the latest edition of FORMULE 1 Magazine. Read a passage from this column below.
Enough has been said and written about all the regulation changes and their impact, both in the run-up to the season and during the first three GPs. Fortunately, the FIA and F1, together with teams and drivers, want to do something about it. But really fixing these mistakes? I’m afraid they won’t succeed. It also has everything to do with, for example, the previous generation of cars. A few years ago, they became
wider, clunkier you could say. Circuits were then adapted.
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Take Australia, where a chicane disappeared. And the Abu Dhabi circuit is another such example. A chicane also disappeared there; everything had to be smoother to make those cars work. But: with the cars and regulations you have now, you see the disadvantages. Honestly, on tracks like those in Hungary
or Monaco, you’ll definitely get some fun races. Because normally not much happened there, now it certainly will. You saw it in Melbourne right away in the first race: there was a lot of overtaking. But only in an artificial way, and that’s where the problem lies.”
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