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Albon
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Nyck
De Vries
Pierre
Gasly
Lewis
Hamilton
Nico
Hulkenberg
Charles
Leclerc
Kevin
Magnussen
Lando
Norris
Esteban
Ocon
Sergio
Perez
Oscar
Piastri
George
Russell
Carlos
Sainz
Logan
Sargeant
Lance
Stroll
Yuki
Tsunoda
Max
Verstappen
Guanyu
Zhou

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Alfa Romeo
AlphaTauri
Alpine
Aston Martin
Ferrari
Haas
McLaren
Mercedes
Red Bull
Williams

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The 2022 season saw the arrival of a new generation of cars, designed to allow for even closer racing. Ferrari initially took full advantage, with Charles Leclerc returning the Scuderia to winning ways, but their title challenge ultimately faded in the face of a relentless Max Verstappen and Red Bull team, who secured their first championship double since 2013. Mercedes were the only other team to win a race, but it was George Russell who took a celebrated maiden victory, as team mate Lewis Hamilton failed to top a podium for the first time in his illustrious F1 career.

TESTING

Spain

FORMULA 1 PRE-SEASON TRACK SESSION 2022

TESTING

Bahrain

FORMULA 1 ARAMCO PRE-SEASON TESTING 2022

ROUND 1

Bahrain

FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX 2022

LEC

SAI

HAM

ROUND 2

Saudi Arabia

FORMULA 1 STC SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX 2022

VER

LEC

SAI

ROUND 3

Australia

FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX 2022

LEC

PER

RUS

ROUND 4

Italy

FORMULA 1 ROLEX GRAN PREMIO DEL MADE IN ITALY E DELL’EMILIA-ROMAGNA 2022

VER

PER

NOR

ROUND 5

United States

FORMULA 1 CRYPTO. COM MIAMI GRAND PRIX 2022

VER

LEC

SAI

ROUND 6

Spain

FORMULA 1 PIRELLI GRAN PREMIO DE ESPAÑA 2022

VER

PER

RUS

ROUND 7

Monaco

FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2022

PER

SAI

VER

ROUND 8

Azerbaijan

FORMULA 1 AZERBAIJAN GRAND PRIX 2022

VER

PER

RUS

ROUND 9

Canada

FORMULA 1 AWS GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2022

VER

SAI

HAM

ROUND 10

Great Britain

FORMULA 1 LENOVO BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2022

SAI

PER

HAM

ROUND 11

Austria

FORMULA 1 ROLEX GROSSER PREIS VON ÖSTERREICH 2022

LEC

VER

HAM

ROUND 12

France

FORMULA 1 LENOVO GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE 2022

VER

HAM

RUS

ROUND 13

Hungary

FORMULA 1 ARAMCO MAGYAR NAGYDÍJ 2022

VER

HAM

RUS

ROUND 14

Belgium

FORMULA 1 ROLEX BELGIAN GRAND PRIX 2022

VER

PER

SAI

ROUND 15

Netherlands

FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN DUTCH GRAND PRIX 2022

VER

RUS

LEC

ROUND 16

Italy

FORMULA 1 PIRELLI GRAN PREMIO D’ITALIA 2022

VER

LEC

RUS

ESPORTS

Pro Championship — Event 1

ROUND 17

Singapore

FORMULA 1 SINGAPORE AIRLINES SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX 2022

PER

LEC

SAI

ROUND 18

Japan

FORMULA 1 HONDA JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2022

VER

PER

LEC

ESPORTS

Pro Championship — Event 2

ROUND 19

United States

FORMULA 1 ARAMCO UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX 2022

VER

HAM

LEC

ROUND 20

Mexico

FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN GRAN PREMIO DE LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO 2022

VER

HAM

PER

ESPORTS

Pro Championship — Event 3

ROUND 21

Brazil

FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN GRANDE PRÊMIO DE SÃO PAULO 2022

RUS

HAM

SAI

ROUND 22

Abu Dhabi

FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX 2022

VER

LEC

PER

ESPORTS

Pro Championship — Event 4

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Alexander
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De Vries
Pierre
Gasly
Lewis
Hamilton
Nico
Hulkenberg
Charles
Leclerc
Kevin
Magnussen
Lando
Norris
Esteban
Ocon
Sergio
Perez
Oscar
Piastri
George
Russell
Carlos
Sainz
Logan
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Lance
Stroll
Yuki
Tsunoda
Max
Verstappen
Guanyu
Zhou

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It was interesting to compare the reasons for such a difference in speed, but I found someone who had already done all the work and glued two videos together:

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Small subjective analysis

In theory, the new cars should have been faster than the on the straights due to the lower drag of the new aerodynamics, but this year the teams are required to use 10% «green» fuel, which slightly reduces the power of the engines and changes their performance. As one of these features — less power is closer to the cutoff (after all, such fuel does not burn as quickly as usual). Therefore, on straight lines, we see that the speeds of cars 2021 and 2022 are equal (although 2022 should have been faster by 0.2-0.3). nine0003

Turns is another story. Firstly, according to my observations, the car now comes out of any corners more slowly. What is the reason? Option 2:

1) The new fuel provides less torque at «low» rpm and therefore the engine cannot «shoot» out of the corner, it has to rev up and increase the pressure of the turbine in order to get power;

2) The center of downforce is concentrated closer to the center — before the lion’s share of downforce was formed by the rear wing. As a result, the rear wheels are not as well pressed to the pavement at the exit of the turn and the driver just has to work with the gas more smoothly. nine0003

We will find out the answer today during the race — it will be possible to compare accelerations of 0-200 for old and new cars and understand where power does not give acceleration (at speeds up to 100) and where aerodynamics already does not give the necessary downforce to the rear wheels (140- 200 and above).

Turns should also be divided into slow and fast: the ground effect — the main effect that forms downforce in 2022, works the better the closer the underlying surface of the car (bottom) to the asphalt, and, as you know, at high speeds the suspension is under load shrinks and the car gets closer to the asphalt. nine0003

That is, at high speeds it is stupidly better pressed to the ground, so on slow turns the new cars are even slower (by the difference expressed in seconds) than on fast ones — this can be clearly seen in the attached video.

And the last significant effect is the high weight of fireballs. After the second pre-season tests, a new weight was approved and now the car can weigh a minimum of 798 kg (and only Alfa Romeo fit into this weight, the rest are heavier). That is, the new fireballs added 46kg (and some even 50kg) — this is if half a tank was filled into the old fireballs and sent for qualification (loss from 0.75 sec to 1 sec from a circle). nine0003

Total

Last year, Max Verstappen in a Red Bull car completed the Bahrain championship lap in 1:28. 997, this year Charles Leclerc in a Ferrari car came on pole with a lap in 1:30.558 (+1.561 sec)

The new cars were a pleasant surprise. Yes, they have problems with dolphins, engines are slightly weaker (and cannot be changed) and the cars themselves are heavy, but even with all these negative factors, the teams were able to maintain a gap of only 1.5 seconds, when forecasts reached a gap of 5 seconds (only Mercedes technical director James Allison said that new wheels will slow cars down by 2 seconds). nine0003

By the way, here’s my prediction at the beginning of the tests, and even I didn’t expect such a speed («last days of tests» replace with «qualification» because at the tests everyone decided not to even try to put a theoretical pole position).

Will it be faster?

Definitely yes. Now begins a new era of ground effect and we see only the first iteration of fireballs. Teams will find new ways to “bleed” air from under the bottom, which will save them from dolphins, and this in turn will allow the car to have more downforce at all times. Someone will make a semi-active suspension in any way (but without electronics, as Mercedes did in 2021), while other teams will find new loopholes (for example, as with mirrors on Mercedes cars in 2022). nine0003

I’m sure that in a couple of seasons ground effect cars will be even faster than the 2020 «fastest ever» cars.

what will change, new technical regulations, chassis features, alignment of forces

Formula 1 is on the verge of dramatic changes: in 2022, a new technical regulation will come into force, which will completely reset the current alignment of forces and make racing more spectacular — at least that way organizers promise. Let’s get to the bottom of what’s going on. nine0003

Ground effect rehabilitated

The first prototype of the chassis, built according to the 2022 regulations, was presented last year, and even then it became clear that the cars would change quite noticeably in appearance. The design will become more aggressive, some elements will become simpler, and the area in front of the side air intakes will lose the rich plumage that cars now equip.

And this is the main idea of the promoters. The main problem of modern championship cars is the loss of downforce when chasing an opponent. Cars depend so heavily on the operation of wings and other aerodynamic elements that, losing airflow behind another car, they completely lose downforce and traction. That is why it is so difficult to overtake in Formula 1 — you need too much difference in speed, and if the pilots have an equal technique at their disposal, then it is almost impossible to pass the opponent without his mistake. nine0003

2022 Formula 1 prototype chassis

In 2022, having lost their aerodynamics, cars will generate downforce from the bottom and the ground effect they create, which was previously considered dangerous and was banned in Formula 1. The essence of the ground effect is that with a certain configuration of the bottom of the car, extremely rarefied air is created under it, and it actually sucks the car to the surface, providing it with crazy downforce.

The problem, however, is that if more air got under the bottom of such a car — on bumps or curbs, then it became a kind of sail and took off above the asphalt. After a series of dangerous incidents, the ground effect in Formula 1 was banned — then the dictatorship of the wings began. nine0003

In terms of safety, motorsport has taken a huge step forward in the past 30+ years since the ground effect ban was introduced, with the rider protected by impact safety structures and a halo bar that shields the cockpit from large objects. In addition, the more bulky and heavy cars of today are far from being so easy to tear off the ground as the small and nimble cars of the past.

However, the main problem that the ground effect solves is the car’s dependence on clean air. The ground effect works due to the difference in pressure in the air streams, which will be provided regardless of whether there is another car in front. In theory, this will allow the riders to fight closely on the track, and the race will become more spectacular. In the paddock, they hope that the new regulations will allow us to abandon DRS very soon, a tool that puts the attacker and defender in an unequal position. nine0003

New status quo

By next year, Formula 1 will change not only aerodynamics, but also wheels: the championship moves to low-profile tires and 18-inch wheels. The wheels will eventually become heavier and larger in size — the engineers will have to re-design the car’s suspension, and the riders will have to get used to the changed view — the blind zone will become even larger.

Such changes are always changes in the alignment of forces. During the period of stable regulations, the teams gradually level out in terms of speed — those who catch up borrow the most effective solutions from the leaders and the gaps between the giants and outsiders are narrowing. In this case, engineers will create cars from scratch, not knowing how certain decisions will affect the behavior of the car on the track — the first tests of new cars will take place only in February next year. nine0003

The look of the 2014 Formula 1 cars was very different from the look of the previous cars

The last time a comparable scale change occurred in Formula 1 in 2014 — and it was during this period that the Mercedes team, previously considered a daring middle peasant, who only from time to time is able to put pressure on the leaders, became the hegemon of the championship overnight. The victories of the Germans continue to this day — this year they have a chance to take a record eighth consecutive constructors’ championship.

Brawn GP showed a much more striking transformation in 2009-m. A few months before the start of the new season, Honda, after three years of disastrously weak results, decided to close the program. The team thrown out into the street scraped together the budget with difficulty and only by the good will of the rivals received engines, and then confidently won the first few races of the championship and took the title. And the secret of Brawn was in the “double diffuser” — a tricky bottom device that rivals did not think of.

Red Bull and Brawn 9 took the lead in Formula 1 in 2009 in a wave of rule changes0003

Something similar will happen this time. Today’s underdogs Williams, Alfa Romeo and Haas have had a chance to forget about the problems of this year and focus on building a new car — and devote more time to it than rivals busy fighting for higher places. At the same time, problems with the current chassis are experienced by Alpine and Aston Martin, for which the reform is a chance to return to the number of regular contenders for the podium.

However, Red Bull traditionally attracts the greatest interest, as part of which the unsurpassed genius of motorsport aerodynamics Adrian Newey, who created cars that won Formula 1 and IndyCar, continues to work. It was thanks to him that Red Bull broke into the lead in the late 2000s. Newey came up with the idea of a “blown diffuser” — when, after the ban on “double”, he built the exhaust system in such a way that hot gases merged with the air flow and helped to achieve greater downforce.

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