mzso wrote: ↑17 Feb 2022, 20:15
To me its ominous. I can't remember a radical design becoming successful since I've been watching F1.
We only remember them as "radical designs" when they're unsuccessful or banned before they become mainstream. But think of radical things like bargeboards, raised noses, cascade front wing elements, undercut or downwash sidepods, rear pullrods, lower front suspension arms that don't mount onto a keel (remember keels?) etc.
Pretty much all 2022 cars so far have bluff sidepod faces. That'd quite radical in 2021, but is already a trend.
bagajohny wrote: ↑17 Feb 2022, 18:33
My only question is what happens when it rains? With those kind of sidepods.
They get wet. Just like everything else. Although if it rains hard enough for the race to be red flagged, we may observe some lovely waterfalls at the back of Ferraris!
Hoffman900 wrote: ↑17 Feb 2022, 20:28
Waiting for dissertations from the idealist purists that copying is against the spirit of F1.
It has never been against the spirit, but as of 2021 it's somehow against the rules, as if nobody does that like all of the time.