Comparisons are usually odious, but during the weeks of break between the Australian Grand Prixand the next race of baku, there has been enough time to analyze the statistics regarding the past year.
In 2022 the first three appointments were the same as this course, but the overtaking contrasts. This year there have been 87 overtaking, and in 2022 there were 166.
- Bahrain: 58 in 2022: 22 in 2023
- Saudi Arabia: 31 in 2022; 35 in 2023
- Australia: 27 in 2022; 30 in 2023
curiously in jeddah and in Melbourne there were more overtaking this year, showing that the 2023 cars are better suited to urban and semi-urban circuits.
In this season there have been 87 overtakingwhich contrast with the 116 that were produced in 2022 during the first three races of the year.
The technical managers of the FIA Nikolas Tombazis and Tim Goss They have made some statements in ‘Motorsport’ where they specify this data and defend that in 2023 they are not so bad as some believe.
Both find the explanation in that “there has been no deterioration in the management of air contrails that are generated in the pursuit of a single-seater.” “pressure drop it increases the closer you get to the car in front,” said Tim Goss.
There are teams that have worsened
“To be fair, there are one or two cars on the grid that are maybe a bit worse off following the others, but I won’t say which ones. But believe me still we have not reached the load losses as in the old regulationTombazis said.
Closer to the 2022 season than 2021
In 2021, 599 overtaking were made and in 2022 a total of 785, the half It was from 8 more overtaking in each race. This has been the objective that has been tried to follow, although without success so far.
Some fear that Formula 1 will not improve and be the same as in 2021. The technical managers call for calm in this situation.
“We have objective data… and we know what the previous cars were like. We can make the comparison both with data from wind tunnel as with track data,” they added.
“The 2023 data that we have collectedand they are much closer to those of 2022 that the numbers of the of 2021″, concluded Tombazis.
