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AUSTIN, TEXAS – OCTOBER 31: Ross Brawn, Managing Director (Sporting) of the Formula One Group, talks in a press conference to announce the rules for the 2021 Formula One season during previews ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of USA at Circuit of The Americas on October 31, 2019 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
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AUSTIN, TEXAS – OCTOBER 31: Ross Brawn, Managing Director (Sporting) of the Formula One Group, talks in a press conference to announce the rules for the 2021 Formula One season during previews ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of USA at Circuit of The Americas on October 31, 2019 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
Formula One is introducing its biggest regulation change in over 3 decades in the 2022 season. The new regulations hope to bring the field closer to each other and promote better racing. But F1 managing director Ross Brawn does not think that it will change the pecking order of the grid drastically.
Braun mentioned few teams can close up on Mercedes and Red Bull in the new season. He believes that Mercedes, who battled with Red Bull last season could be impacted in the development of their 2022 car.
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I would have been putting everything I could into ’22: Ross Brawn
As reported by Sky Sports, the former Ferrari team principal mentioned that McLaren and Ferrari are in an excellent position to lead the grid in the 2022 season. He mentioned that if he had been part of one of those teams, they would have put everything in the 2022 cars.
“I think they could be impacted. I suspect both of them were very sensible of their approach about balancing ’21 and ’22, though you’ve got your human resource devoted to fighting a very intense world championship, and some of the people further back haven’t had that consideration,” said Brawn on Mercedes and Red Bull‘s chances.
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SAO PAULO, BRAZIL – NOVEMBER 17: Red Bull Racing Team Principal Christian Horner talks with Ross Brawn, Managing Director (Sporting) of the Formula One Group, before the F1 Grand Prix of Brazil at Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace on November 17, 2019, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Charles Coates/Getty Images)
He gave the example of the 2009 season when he guided the Brawn GP team to the title ahead of its rivals after the regulation change. “Although there was a bit of a battle between McLaren and Ferrari, if I’d have been them, very early in the year I would have been putting everything I could into ’22.”
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“I think that’s what happened in 2009. In 2008 there was a big battle between the big teams and they fell flat on their face when it got to 2009,” said F1 MD.
It will be interesting to see if the new regulations indeed affect the top 2 teams. According to many reports, Ferrari head into the 2022 season as the preseason favorites to win the championship.
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