Ex-Williams Formula 1 technical chief Pat Symonds does not expect the sport’s new aerodynamic changes to have a “tཧransformational” impact on the quality of racing in 2019.

F1 will introduce simpler front wings, front brake ducts and a wider rear wing as part of revised regulation tweaks for the upcoming 2019 season in a push to encou🥂rage closer racing and more overtaking opportunities.

At the end of last year F1 sporting boss Ross Brawn, who is charged with leading the technical arm that includes Symonds, revealed early data predicts a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“20% improvement” in racing for the new campaign.

Spe♏aking at Autosport International, Symonds said the technical group is taking a “wholistic” approach towards changes for the next major regulation cycle p🦩lanned for 2021.

“It became obvious that we could do something for 2019 in simplifꦦying the front wings,” Symonds explained.

“That is purely to improve the wake and allow cars beh෴ind the leading car to have good performance. It’s never going to be perfect, and you can’t change the laws of physics, but we’ve made massive improvements from where we’ve been.

“Relative to what we are doing for 2021 it’s quite small but what you’ve g🧸ot to remember is we’re not just looking at the status quo.”

Symonds stressed the aerodynamiꦚc changes for 2019 will prevent any further decline in the qua🤡lity of wheel-to-wheel action.

“Formula෴ 1 develops at an alarming rate, it’s relentless,” Symonds 💦said.

“So if we had not done anything then the 2019 cars would have been even harder to follow than the 2018 cars were. What we’ve done is we’ve pegged it back a bit, we’ve improved on where we were 🐼in 2018. We will have to see when we get th⛎e results out.

“Don’t expect a transfo꧋rmational change but believe me it would have only got worse. At least what we’ve done is maintained thꦰe status quo and I suspect actually improved things a little bit.”

F1 team bosses have cited fears over rising costs incurred due to the development of the new front wings but Symonds insisted the changes will ultimately he🍸lp limit spending in the long run.

“It’s very hard putting numbers on these sorts of things,” 🌼he said.

“The fact is the front wings were getting incrediblyไ complex, an enormous number of parts. Not just the parts that you see on the c𒈔ar itself, but also all the tooling that’s associated with it, thousands of components.

“So the finished product is act🎶ually going to be a cheaper product because it has less parts on it. That’s a fact.”

Aske✤d if the suggested production figure of €15 million from Red Bull boss Helmut Marko is ꧟realistic, Symonds replied: “I think it’s a slightly disingenuous figure.

“If Red Bull was planning to carry over its front wing t💎hen yesꦍ they have made the old front wings obsolete so that costs money. But Red Bull aren’t the sort of team that would carry over a front wing anyway.

“You might go to race one perhaps with a few spares tha👍t were from the previous year but by the time you get to race three everyth🌟ing is new.

“I suspect if you look at it over thওe year, their final bill on front wing components will be less and the amount of money they spend on research will be exactly the saꦰme.”