Formula One bosses Mattia Binotto, Guenther Steiner and Toto Wolff asked for calm with the category's 2022 regulations, pointing out prematurity in any kind of talk about discarding the new rules
F1 began a new technical era in 2022. With revamped regulations and made with the intention of promoting better races and grid changes, the main category of motorsport has undergone important changes: reduced spending ceiling, return of the aerodynamic concept of the ground effect, bigger tires, etc.
With nine rounds to go and just before the 10th round at Silverstone, it is not yet possible to say that the balance of the 'technical revolution' is 100% positive. The races are not that exciting, and the grid had its order of forces changed, true, but the teams in the front and middle platoons remain the same.
In addition, we cannot forget the most talked about issue of the season, from a technical point of view: porpoising, or quiques. Even with all these factors, the Formula One team bosses said that it is still too early to rule out the regulations of the category.
"I think it's a little early to say that we have to give up as to what has been done. We have only completed a few races with these cars. The engineers are very good and they will find a solution before we have to do something drastic," said Haas boss Guenther Steiner.
"I think there will come a time when we will say, 'how can we do this differently?', or 'if we can't change the regulations, can we just discard them?' But for the moment I think we have to stay with these regulations because in general they are not working badly," added the Italian.
On the Mercedes side, Toto Wolff stressed the seriousness of the consequences of porpoising, but also called for calm for further understanding and development of F1's new rules.
"We've seen cars that don't have the problem (quiques) - and some others do, in a worse way, clearly. I can speak for our two drivers: they're having problems and it's gotten to a point that even physiotherapy can't solve it. So we need to see how all this develops and understand why it is a much worse problem in some cars and not in others," said Wolff.
Finally, Mattia Binotto agreed with Steiner and said it is still too early to judge the new technical era of the world's leading motor racing category - which, according to the Ferrari boss, has comfortable cars to be driven by drivers.
"In general, if we judge F1, I don't think the category has the most uncomfortable cars to drive, in terms of single-seaters. It's a challenge for the drivers, no doubt. But still, these cars are comfortable to drive," Binotto told.
"If we look at ourselves, we can see that we have already made progress. As Guenther said, in the future we can do more - so it's too early to judge. I'm sure we will find a solution in the medium-long term. We need to accept it. It's certainly something we all need to understand better to improve, but I'm happy to do it," concluded the Italian team boss.