The 2021 season will be a transitional year for Formula 1 due to the technical freezes and the upcoming 2022 regulation changes, which are a radical departure from what we know now. For the upcoming F1 season, despite the various freezes to most of the mechanical components, the FIA has also imposed aerodynamic limitations to limit the downforce, which it believed could reach dangerous levels without some form of intervention. Aerodynamic limitations due to tyres The main motivation of the technical changes for ’21 are to limit the mechanical stress to which Pirelli’s tyres will be subjected, with the development and increase in performance of the cars that naturally occur from year to...
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