If 2021 was anything to go by, 2022 was almost quiet by comparison, to be fair... F1
Toto Wolff says 2022 didn’t have ‘any more or fewer games’ that a usual F1 seasonAfter a season in which porpoising and budget caps created headlines, Toto Wolff says politics in Formula 1 is “quite normal” as team bosses want to “protect” their own teams.
The FIA did eventually get involved, issuing TD39 that came into effect at the Belgian Grand Prix, while also tweaking the floor regulations for next year’s championship. But while it may seem as if this year’s seen more political wrangling off the track than usual, Wolff says that’s not so, the Mercedes motorsport boss saying politics has always been a part of the game.“I think we all do that, trying to stay ahead or protect ourselves or, in a way, understand where [team] policy is going. I think it’s quite normal.
Christian Horner countered with: “Tell them to bitch as much as they could over the radio and make as big an issue out of it as they possibly could. It’s part of the game.”The FIA sided with Mercedes, bringing in TD39 that included a vertical oscillation metric to measure bouncing with the stipulation that any team that exceeds it will be deemed unsafe. No one ever did.
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