Listen to this article One of the key motivators for the latest ground effect cars is to make the racing better, with F1’s bosses hoping that more exciting battles will help bring in bigger audiences in the future. But at the core of what is changing is something even more important: producing a sport that is a thrill for the drivers themselves. For they, as much as fans, have never especially liked grand prix cars that were so difficult to overtake. In fact, tracing back the origins of how F1 bosses elected to embrace a complete rethink of rules, one of the catalysts for change was a push from the drivers themselves. It was the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, under chairman Alex Wurz, that came together and wrote to Liberty Media chiefs shortly after they bought F1 at the end of 2017. In that letter, as Wurz explains, it was emphasised that F1’s old …