Within the round-up: FIA president Mohamed Ben Sulayem has made it clear he needs Formulation 1 automobiles to grow to be lighter when the subsequent set of technical rules is launched.
Ben Sulayem doesn’t need weight improve in future F1 guidelines
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem says the governing physique will guarantee Formulation 1 automobiles grow to be lighter when the subsequent technology of technical guidelines are launched in 2026.
The ability unit rules have already been fastened for the 2026 season. The sequence is in dialogue over the chassis rules. Ben Sulayem, a former rally driver, says he’s eager to see automobile weights fall.
“I’ve pushed rallies myself. Give me every part, however please no heavy automobile! That all the time bothered me,” he informed Motorsport Complete in an interview. “Lighter automobiles are higher and I do know what I’m speaking about.
“If the burden is heavier, the suspension is compromised, the brakes don’t work as nicely, the tyres put on out extra shortly. And extra weight is extra harmful in a crash.”
In 2001, the minimal weight of an F1 automobile was 600kg. For 2023 it’s 798kg, together with the driving force, and technical groups consider it is going to be troublesome to match in 2026 until the size of automobiles are diminished.
“I’ve already spoken to my group on the FIA,” stated Ben Sulayem. “We wish lighter automobiles and we wish a greater sound [from the engines]. That’s in the end as much as the FIA. If Stefano [Domenicali, F1 Group’s CEO] needs that too, wonderful, then we agree on that time. However the FIA has to determine. We’ll implement it. Not as a result of the FOM or a group needs it that means. It’s as a result of it’s the suitable factor for the game.”
Frijns returns to Envision in FE
New BMW manufacturing unit driver Robin Frijns is returning to Envision Racing within the newest transfer within the Formulation E driver merry-go-round.
Sam Fowl left Jaguar final week after three seasons with them, enabling Nick Cassidy to show his anticipated transfer there for 2024 a actuality. That freed up a seat at Envision, which makes use of Jaguar’s powertrains, and Frijns has snapped it up. His transfer now additionally opens up an area at Abt Cupra.
Frijns has raced in FE since 2015, spending two seasons with Andretti Autosport earlier than becoming a member of Envision for 4 campaigns. He gained in Paris and New York for the group in 2019 en path to ending fourth within the standings, then over the subsequent three seasons picked up eight podiums.
This yr he moved to Abt, who he drove for within the DTM from 2018 to 2020, and his season started with a wrist-breaking conflict that meant he missed the subsequent 4 races. As soon as he returned to the cockpit he was solely in a position to rating six factors, leaving him twenty second within the standings on the finish of the 16-race season. He might be group mate to Sebastien Buemi at Envision subsequent yr.
Kirkwood: Nashville win redemption for Detroit and Toronto
Kyle Kirkwood’s victory in Nashville final weekend means he has gained two of IndyCar’s 5 road circuit races this yr. However he reckons it ought to have been 4 out of 5.
The Andretti driver began his second IndyCar season by ending fifteenth in St Peterburg, claimed his maiden IndyCar win at Lengthy Seaside, completed sixth with quickest lap in Detroit and was fifteenth in Toronto. Within the latter two he was quick in apply, however then didn’t ship on that tempo in qualifying and so was on the again foot for the races.
Kirkwood described his drive to victory in Nashville as “phenomenal” as he and his group “hold giving me an important automobile that’s good on road programs.”
“This needs to be greater than two wins, to be trustworthy, on road programs given the automobiles they’ve given me,” stated Kirkwood. “I’m thrilled with this one right here right now. That is sort of redemption from final yr. A dumb incident. Redemption from Toronto. Redemption from Detroit.”
Though he’s “undecided” why he’s so robust on road circuits in IndyCar, with solely two top-10 finishes from 20 races on everlasting tracks, Kirkwood reckons “a number of it has to do exactly with consolation round partitions and adaptableness.”
Motor racing hyperlinks of curiosity:
Excessive midday with Vasseur (Autosprint – Italian)
‘Iron fist isn’t my means, and instances have modified. Individuals’s psychological strategy is completely different, we want a extra inclusive strategy that makes everybody take part in a profitable undertaking. That is true in all contexts, not simply in F1. From 1993 to 2000 Ferrari did not win, there are not any profitable recipes by definition. You simply have to enhance the system and Jean Todt was nice at surviving and growing it proper. I feel it was tougher for Jean to outlive seven years than to win titles again and again!’
Fittipaldi’s Spa-Francorchamps weekend in his phrases (Formulation 2)
‘A primary Formulation 2 victory was by no means a matter of if, however when for Enzo Fittipaldi. Seizing the day within the Dash Race, the Rodin Carlin driver mastered the ready recreation and pounced when it mattered to face on the highest step of the rostrum for the primary time at Spa-Francorchamps.’
Lawson: Tremendous Formulation a helpful step in direction of F1 (Speedcafe)
”The stuff you’re truly engaged on with the automobile, mechanically and set-up-wise with aero as nicely; it’s actually, actually delicate to experience heights and issues like that, like F1 is. You don’t get that sensitivity in F2,’ he stated. ‘So by way of the issues that I’m studying as a driver, on the automobile set-up and issues like that, it’s stuff that’s rather a lot nearer – we don’t have the battery techniques, the MGU-Okay stuff we’re not working with, however simply by way of simply aero and the automobile, it’s much like F1.”
In Profile: Gabriel Bortoleto (FIA Formulation 3)
”’I feel once I have to be aggressive, I could be very a lot aggressive. I can play the sport that the others are enjoying as nicely. So if I see that the man may be very aggressive, I could be the identical. I’ve no issues on doing that. However on the identical time, I do know that if I am preventing for one thing larger, like I am doing now, I understand how to play the sensible man as nicely.”
Goodbye, Crashville – and hey to a brand new crown jewel? (Racer)
‘Nashville did not stay as much as expectations on Sunday, and that’s a pleasant factor to report. Dubbed ‘Crashville,’ and rightly so after its first two occasions had extra in frequent with destruction derbies than IndyCar races, the race that happened throughout Sunday’s 80-lap contest gained by Kyle Kirkwood was , for the primary time, downright regular.’
This time, leaving can be synonymous with no return for the French industrial group. At this time, through his group, he offers a global stature to Alpine which he needs to make his premium model. Tomorrow, maybe it is going to be essential to assist Renault once more or promote a model of the group. No, positively, that may not be a very good calculation, particularly now that it’s doable to attain monetary equilibrium due to the finances cap.’”]
We all the time endeavour to credit score authentic sources. In case you have a tip for a hyperlink regarding single-seater motorsport to function within the subsequent F1 Triviaround-up please ship it to us through the contact type.
Notable posts from Twitter, Instagram and extra:
Look what we discovered… 👀
Ayrton Senna’s iconic SEGA trophy from *THAT* 1993 #F1 race at Donington! ❤️ pic.twitter.com/aCA6se6IFM
— McLaren (@McLarenF1) August 8, 2023
📷CASTLE COMBE PRESENTS: OUTDOOR CINEMA!📷
Three evenings of automobile film-based enjoyable on the Wiltshire race monitor this August (25-27), with distant headsets offered!
Do not miss this distinctive expertise: https://t.co/eKSnUftTC7 pic.twitter.com/grv8N1le0k
— Fort Combe Circuit (@CastleCombeUK) August 8, 2023
- Discover extra official F1 accounts to comply with within the F1 Twitter Listing
The group mate battle between Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez has been very one-sided, notably within the European leg of the season. Everybody needs to know why Perez stopped having victory-fighting type just some races into the 2023 season, and the way he can reclaim that skill. However what if an improved Perez simply results in an improved Verstappen?
I do suppose that when Perez is in a vibe with the automobile and feeling assured he could be shut sufficient to Verstappen the place he can win. However Max is simply so relentlessly persistently quick all over the place and seemingly in a position to pull out additional virtually at will that it’s actually exhausting to maintain up the arrogance in your self if you’re up in opposition to that in the identical automobile.
Perez in all probability let the stress get to him, crashed in Monaco and that made him query the automobile, himself, every part. By now, we are able to hope he can get again to his mojo for a bit the place he’ll at the very least offer some problem to Max, however I’ve little hope Max might be in a temper to let that occur greater than often.
For the championship, there actually was by no means a lot doubt that it will be one sided, however I suppose we could be completely satisfied at the very least the primary few races gave us the hope of getting them race one another for it.
BasCB
No Comment