Aesto wrote:If that race had been driven in current cars, but without DRS, Schumacher would have sat behind Montoya for 50 laps with no chance to overtake. See pretty much any 2010 race as an example. Modern F1 cars are so much more susceptible to dirty air because aerodynamic downforce relies on complex and fickle effects like vortices, that DRS is simply a necessity. That might change if we do get 1000bhp engines and wider tyres back, but for now it is what it is.
Those cars suffered from the effects of wake just as badly as the cars of today. We're only talking about a bit more than a decade. That being said, we saw better fights this year. Vettel vs Alonso in Silverstone and Hamilton vs Rosberg in Bahrain as examples. It's a great clip, but can we please throw out the rose tinted spectacles? For every race with a poorly executed drs, there's another where it works wonderfully.