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Originally Posted by Oldtony
The purported reason for the aero changes was to make cars more driveable in the wake of a preceding car, thus setting up more overtaking possibilities.
While some drivers have been taking brief opportunities to follow rival cars to check aero performance the fact that testing only involves one car per team prevents testing from being able to develop that function.
With the major changes being to front wing layout and rear wing height this means that there is no way teams can get a real handle on this until Australia.
Good thing or bad thing?
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This is a good point Tony.
The testing model seems to be built around only running a single car, must be in the regulations somewhere or else somebody would be bound to be running two cars in testing for double the data. They do it week in week out at the GPs.
Many of the teams have stated that the new rules will make no difference to following, some saying it will be worse, Toto Wolff being very blunt about the results of their modeling, and I guess nobody believes the change in regulations will make any difference, so running in tandem is not at the top of their priorities.