Will 2022's all-new cars look like F1's concept model?
Formula 1 provided its clearest example yet of what the 2022 cars are set to look like when it presented a full-scale concept to the world during the build-up to last weekend’s British Grand Prix. Underneath the special shiny livery was a design that hinted at the future, but teams will be digging into key areas that may reap differing results
There was the inescapable feeling of a primary school “show-and-tell" session when it came to Formula 1’s approach to the British Grand Prix. First, it (re-)unveiled its 2022 concept mock-up, decked out in a holographic livery more suited to an early-2000s Clinton Morrison football sticker. Then came the sprint qualifying – definitely not a race, according to the FIA – race, one of F1’s experiments with a new weekend format. One can only imagine The Simpsons' Edna Krabappel’s sardonic retort of “thank you F1, I look forward to seeing it again in a few races time”.
As the sprint racing-style-motorsport-event came to a close, and the drivers hastily shoved into the back of a van akin to a scene from Withnail & I, the social media discourse erupted into determining whether the race was any good, and if the half-hour spectacle augmented the race weekend rather than hindered it.
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