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Mercedes’ Chief Technical Officer James Allison says some teams will have got the new 2022 Formula 1 rules “really badly wrong”, which will lead to a “a terribly painful year” for them.
In 2022 Formula 1 is introducing one of the biggest rule changes in its history. James Allison talked about the massive change in Mercedes’ new video preview of the new rules.
“Everyone in our team, and everyone in every other team, will have done our level best to try to find a design and an approach that will be a happy match to this new regulation set,” Allison said.
“And we’ll all get to find out together at the start of this season, in the races that unfold from there, exactly how that shakes out.
“I would imagine, given that the cars are so new and so different, that one or two cars on the grid will have got it really badly wrong. And they will have a terribly painful year.
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“I would imagine that all of us to some degree will have will have left things on the table that we just didn’t anticipate. And we will look at other cars and think ‘oh, why didn’t we think of that?’
“Then we’ll be scrambling around to try to get that idea onto our car as fast as possible, so that we can claw our way, from whatever position we land in that first race, forwards. Or, if we’re lucky enough to be in front, to keep the attacking wolves behind us.
“It’s going to be quite a rush and definitely something that’s going to keep us all from having too much sleep for the whole of the season.”
