It's not the only outlier, and was not meant to occur given the reason for the rule change. Besides that, the vast majority of overtaking is conducted using DRS. The only difference is in 2022 and some parts of 23 it was more powerful then years preceding that. Less drag was meant to be a game changer but has turned into same same.AR3-GP wrote: ↑02 May 2023, 22:16On mobile so can’t say too much but your stat is for Baku is an outlier. There are reports that consider the overtaking statistics across all GP events, in the different years and they support that the 2022 regs increased overtaking on average, even though there are outliers like you show for Baku where the trend is opposite.
As for the spec car comment, I don’t want this, to be clear. It’s just that using observation, you can see that F1 has messed about with the formula for something like 30 years, and has yet to hit the holy grail. Why are you so confident they will ever find it? I’m not. We have tried so many different things from refueling to cheese tires to moving front wings. What is left that has not been done already?
As for your engine freeze comment, again, it wasn’t until 2021 that anyone had a legal engine that could match Mercedes. That’s from a lifting of the freeze that started in 2015!
There has been many years including in the hybrid era where teams have been close. Even then there differentiators which might have been better controlled. Trying to find cause and acting in a measured fashion has almost never happened. So equating previous efforts as the limit is a very low baseline to start from. And certainly is far better to attempt change than to leave things in the sorry state they're in now.
Ferrari did not have an illegal engine. The FIA said as much by saying they weren't satisfied but couldn't prove anything and it had suspicions it couldn't prove. If it was illegal results would've been excluded and reason for illegality published. So the engine was on a very good comparative level in 2016, albeit with a mediocre chassis, 12 months after action was taken by the FIA when it was clear a redressing of the balance was needed.
And the greater point being that almost 10 years ago the FIA exhibited greater reflexive reaction to the situation than what we are seeing today. Hell even Domenicalli was saying he sees no reason to change anything and that fans dont mind seeing Red Bull domination. He then frames that by laughably saying
They have gone past the 2014 decision point and are happy with the state of affairs.But if you look at the others, the other teams are very close, very, very close.
