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Why the end of "party mode" won't crash Mercedes' festivities

At Formula 1's Spanish GP it emerged the FIA was planning to restrict teams to a single engine mode for qualifying and the race. Aimed at Mercedes to slash its pace, the new rules might help rather than hinder the team

Jake Boxall-Legge Aug 17, 2020, 3:34 PM

When Formula 1 draped an "under new management" sign over its doors upon its takeover by Liberty Media, many fans were hoping for an end to the knee-jerk decision making that had perhaps become customary over the previous few years in a bid to peg back teams getting too big for their boots.

Perhaps it falls more into the domain of the FIA to make those calls, but still, most were hopeful of more consistent governance with regards to the rulebook.

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Author Jake Boxall-Legge

Jake studied engineering at university, as his original ambition was to design racing cars. He was bad at that, and thus decided to write about them instead with an equally limited skillset. The above article is a demonstration of that. In his spare time, Jake enjoys people, places, and things.