Undoubtedly the 2021 season has been the most exciting year yet for this generation of cars, aided by the engine manufacturers converging in performance and aerodynamic tweaks which hit Mercedes harder than most of their rivals. Will the current cars be missed? That will largely depend on how successful their replacements are. F1 will also bid farewell to 13-inch wheels ahead of the introduction of new, 18-inch wheels in 2022. This weekend’s race will be the last for Formula 1’s current generation of cars before a new era of much more tightly restricted designs are ushered in. Next year’s cars will look something like thisThe revised Yas Marina course was created with an eye towards the new technical regulations for the 2022 season. New turn nine, Yas Marina circuit, 2021 The end of the ‘aero era’?
The upshot is a shorter course, lap times potentially 10 to 15 seconds quicker and therefore three more laps on the race distance. Later in the lap a succession of four other low-speed corners have eased. The corners which bookend those straights are now medium-to-high speed turns, replacing the fiddly, slow bends which previously characterised this track. And rather than just a nip-and-tuck of a few tweaked turns, this is more akin to reconstructive surgery, with more than half of the corners on last year’s layout either chopped or changed.įrom turn three to the final bend, every corner has been altered besides the chicane which interrupts its two long straights.
The Yas Marina circuit has had the facelift which, arguably, it has been waiting for since it opened.
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