Does Aston have a case in the F1 2021’s big tech lineup?

Who would have thought that a simple trim would cause so much outrage? At the push of a button, the established order of Formula 1 seems to have been violently shaken – albeit not completely upside down.

It is always difficult to predict the outcome of regulatory changes beyond general principles. The declared aim of the optimizations – a diagonal cut in the floor area and restrictions of other aerodynamic devices at the rear of the cars – was the safety, to reduce the load on the downforce and to stop loading a generation of Pirelli tires that were already having difficulties. However, there was still uncertainty about the specific effects of putting the theory into practice, especially since two teams use a very different vehicle philosophy than all the others.