British Formula One managing director, motor sports and technical director, Ross Brawn, who earned fame as the “mastermind” behind Michael Schumacher’s seven world championship titles, feels that the former Scuderia Ferrari driver would have been ‘fascinated’ by the all-new Formula 1 technical regulations which have been introduced for the 2022 championship.
Michael Schumacher entered Formula 1 back in 1991 and completed 18 full championships on the grid but today’s Formula 1 is completely different to what he experienced during his amazing career. Michael retired for the first time in 2006, when he ended his impressive and successful partnership with the Maranello team and returned in 2010 for a few more years with Mercedes. Two seasons after the legendary F1 driver retired for the second time, Formula 1 brought in V6 hybrid engines while this year the cars have overgone their biggest overhaul in decades, as Formula 1 focused on the ground effect aerodynamics in order to create downforce, with the goal of creating a more exciting competition by giving drivers more opportunities to overatek
It is a completely new era and one that has the teams still working hard in order to fully understand the cars, some doing a better job of it than others as could be seen in the first five rounds of the 2022 Formula 1 season. But Ross Brawn things that Michael Schumacher would have thrived.
“That would have been right up his alley,” Ross Brawn said, as reported by Sport Bild – “He used to be the last person to leave the paddock on Saturday night before the race. He sat with me and the engineers for hours on dates and numbers. He would be fascinated to analyse all this with the engineers. He would be great in this new era. Michael would love the new Formula 1!” – he explained.
The former Ferrari driver would have especially enjoyed the racing, as the current campaign has beem marked by a close and intense duel between Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen: the two young drivers were involved in wheel-to-wheel battles for victories on several occasions, as the lead changed several times.
With interesting track action at the top of the grid, as well as in the back, the British Formula One managing director feels that is something which would not have been possible happen during the last years, due to the fact that the cars lost too much downforce following the opponent in front of them:
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“The car driving behind used to lose at least 40 percent downforce and wasn’t able to get close to the car to be overtaken. Studies have shown that even cars driving side by side have lost a lot of downforce due to air turbulence. One of the main tasks was to change the aerodynamics so that you can overtake better and more safely.” – Ross Brawn continued.
The former Ferrari technical director admitted to being pleased with his contribution as well as that of Formula 1’s new owners for changing the rules ahead of the 2022 Formula 1 championship: “When I took over this post five years ago, I knew that Formula 1 needed a new era. The time with Bernie Ecclestone was fantastic, and the new era cannot and should not be compared with it now. We needed new, young fans, and with the upheaval and the new opportunities we have succeeded so far.” – Ross Brawn concluded.
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