While all the teams are now focussing on 2020, yesterday even trying Pirelli's prototype tyres for next season, the big boys, Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull are already looking ahead to 2021. With the regulations 'confirmed', their financial and technical resources will allow them to start preparing for the biggest overhaul of its regulations the sport has witnessed in living memory, a luxury out of reach of the smaller teams. With the budget cap not enforceable until 2021, the big teams will take full advantage in the meantime, leaving their smaller rivals fearing that initially the current status quo will be maintained. Asked, given the financial advantage enjoyed by the big guns, if it...
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