However, it did not escape anyone's notice that Formula One will not have full control over the final designs of the cars. With the h...
However, it did not escape anyone's notice that Formula One will not have full control over the final designs of the cars. With the help of the FIA, a set of regulations is due to be presented to the teams at the end of 2019 but from that point onwards aesthetics will take a back seat and the full focus of the designs will be on performance.
"It'll look like nothing what's been painted," Force India technical director Andy Green said when asked for his opinion of the concept car. "They're just concepts, they're drawings -- I have no idea if that's what they will end up looking like.
"I'm not that fussed with how they look, it's how they perform that I'm interested in. They're just artistic impressions of what the car might look like.
"To me, the car at the front of the grid is normally the best looking car."
You only have to go back to 2014 to see the potential for unintended consequences when it comes to writing regulations. Back then, a new rule was introduced to mandate lower noses for safety reasons but it resulted in a variety of bizarre appendages on the front of cars.
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