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“How is that closing up the field?”– F1 fans ask what good 2022 regulations have done when Ferrari & Red Bull are so ahead against rest of the grid

Tanish Chachra
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"How is that closing up the field?"– F1 fans ask what good 2022 regulations have done when Ferrari & Red Bull are so ahead against rest of the grid

F1 fans ask F1 and Liberty media what good has been done by the 2022 regulations when Ferrari and Red Bull are so far ahead.

The 2022 season brought in radical aerodynamic reforms that aimed to enhance the completion of the grid. But like any other year, this time, the teams with better engineering hold got to have the edge over the others.

This time, Ferrari and Red Bull are far above any other team on the grid. This status-quo defeats the whole purpose behind the changes F1 aimed at bringing to make the sport more attractive.

As it currently stands, Red bull is around one-tenth of a second behind Ferrari. The next best team, Mercedes, is almost a second behind Ferrari.

The budget caps also seem to be not helping that much as teams from the lower grid either haven’t managed to upscale their spending or are still doing poor engineering-wise.

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What good have regulations done to prevent the duopoly of Ferrari and Red Bull?

Therefore, F1 fans on Twitter have asked the stakeholders of F1 and the governing body what good has been achieved with the new regulations. As the reality of F1 is similar to what it was before.

Meanwhile, a few people defended F1 for the new regulations. One interjected that it is still better than the Mercedes era of dominance, where the Silver Arrows used to be miles ahead.

On the other hand, someone mentioned that motorsports have always been like this. There is always a side which manages to have a significant edge over the other despite the rules.

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra

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Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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