Source: Mercedes F1 Twitter
Mercedes’ simulator driver Anthony Davidson says Formula 1 in 2022 “should be more along the lines of how the F2 drivers race each other”.
Anthony Davidson has been one of the people who have been able to experience the new 2022 Formula 1 cars in the simulator.
During his appearance of Sky Sports F1, the Briton was asked if any improvements to wheel-to-wheel racing can be expected.
“Hopefully, because you have more ground-effect, you have skirts and created a vacuum to the diffuser,” Davidson said.
“So it is the same diffuser but it is bigger, longer and more effective but also it is in this vacuum so that creates even more suction to the ground.
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“So you are relying, hopefully, less on the wings that are giving you your grip and more on the floor. The floor, critically, is less affected by following a car in front.
“It should be more along the lines of how the F2 drivers race each other. That is what I am hoping for.
“The DRS will be more powerful than the F2 cars are, but maybe not quite as powerful as the cars from last year or the year before.
“They will be quite different to drive for the drivers, but fairly similar lap times I would imagine, especially towards the end of the season,” he concluded.
