Listen to this article The scale of these changes meant that F1’s traditional development battle is no longer the one-horse race that it’s been in recent years. Teams are having to find incremental performance gains from a host of different avenues this year. F1 had essentially become one dominated by aerodynamic endeavour, with brakes, tyres, suspension and setup well-honed and understood after years of the same regulatory framework. Instead, they’re now presenting intriguing, diversionary development strands, both at and away from the race track, as the knowledge that teams had accrued over the course of the last decade or more has been completely eroded. This has required the teams to not only redesign parts to comply with the new regulations but also search for ways to improve their performance based on the new parameters and how they interact with each other. 2 …