Traction Control Ban Not Enough, Says Head

Williams technical director Patrick Head believes a ban on electronic driver aids is not enough to bring back the glamour and excitement to Formula One racing, suggesting the sport's governing body should consider more radical changes.

"In days gone by, watching Formula One cars sliding on opposite lock through the corners, you could look at them and know that there was just no way you could do the same," Head told the Guardian, in an interview with journalist Alan Henry.

"But when you watch a modern Formula One car go round, even though you're wrong, you look at it and think 'I could do that, it looks easy.' I want to see cars racing like they used to. But getting rid of traction control alone isn't going to do that.

"If you want to see dramatic looking racing you've got to have different tyres on the car, you've probably got to change the regulations that cause you to have much smaller front tyres and much bigger rears which will in turn cause us to change the overall weight distribution of the car.

"There's a lot more than just banning traction control, and anybody who thinks that banning traction control and launch control will suddenly make cars go around the place in big slides is basically not understanding the limitations of a current Formula One car."