Searcy, AR (LP) – It was a crazy final race in the Yas Marina Grand Prix but not only that Max Verstappen finally wins and also becomes the first Dutch world champion and this has been his dream since he started racing in Formula 1 in 2014 at the age of 17. But how did Max Verstappen take the win? In lap 54 former Formula 1 Driver Nicholas Latifi crashed in turn 14, Max Verstappen decided to call his team to get a fresh set of tires while Lewis Hamilton is taking the lead of the race with old set of tires, they were told get a fresh set of tires but they whole team refused because if Hamilton went to the pit lane to get fresh tires he would have already lost the race and Max would win the world title but there were only 4 laps left of the race.
On lap 56 they announced that lapped cars were not allowed to overtake and Max was dropped down to P5, and not only that the steward’s has changed there mind let lapped cars to overtake the safety car which put Max in P2 while Lewis is in the lead of the final lap. As soon as they announced the green flag the two drivers go head to head in the last lap. And Max Verstappen overtakes Lewis in turn 5, and he takes the lead of the race. Lewis Hamilton tried to fight back to get his position back but he just couldn’t get his position back on the final turn to take the world title In the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. “It was a bit of a roller coaster, but of course from not really having a chance of winning to the last lap where everything comes together and you have to go for it and we did. So it’s incredible but insane emotions as throughout,” said Max Verstappen. Max also said, “Of course I was nervous this morning going to the car knowing that there is a title at stake, the roller coster and the emotions where it seems like your loosing the battle, but then I just told myself I’m just going to push myself in the last lap not even making it easy and I just can’t believe it that the minds, but I came in my way in the race but you never expect that to happen, but of course the safety car and your just having that one lap shoot out, with the fresher tires on and thats was my chance but the funny thing was that I was so close and then I got a massive cramp on my leg on the last lap, whole lap so when I went to move already that whole straight like turn 2, 3, and 4. And the massive cramp just hit my leg and I was going flat out, bitting my bite saying ‘Come on, Come On’ and it was really painful so I made the move inside of wide turn on Lewis, Then I still had a straight line battling along with Lewis and I was not really enjoyable and I was really happy on turn 9, and everything has started to settle down for a little bit early in turn 12 cause the cramp is just so invariable, all that just adds the emotional of the whole race”.
In 2022 we are expecting a crazy season and they have added some new changes, this car has been designed to promote better racing in formula 1, The 2022 car has developed by formula 1’s in house motorsports team in collaboration with the FIA, and putting a heavy onus on the aerodynamic phenomenon known as ground effect which can reduces those figures to 4 percent at 20 meters and rising to just up to 18 percent at 10 meters. And it will also feature over wheel winglets for the first time. Although there have been some changes to the 2022 regulation to limit what teams can do around the tires aerodynamically, Formula 1’s motorsport team wanted to take a belt and braces approach by adding a physical seal to prevent engineers intentionally directing disruptive airflow out through the wheels. The lower profile also has the added benefit of reducing the sidewall deflection changes and the resulting aerodynamic wake effect that occurs. And the teams also spend a lot of effort in simulating the airflow regimes around the tyre shapes and interactions with the car bodywork, and reducing the sensitivity in this area will be a benefit in both the cars design process and resources required. They also did some changes on the front wing and nose concept. The new front wing generates consistent downforce when running close behind another car, and ensures that the front wheel is well controlled and directed down the car in the least disruptive way. The aero that they had feature from the 1970’s which they also brought it back, the full ground effect f1 cars were subsequently outlaws at the end of 1982, but the new 2022 car does also features fully shaped underfloor tunnels, rather than the stepped floor used currently, which they have allowed the other teams to generate larger amounts of efficient downforce through ground effect and the reason why they have changed this is because the benign quality of downforce generated in ground effect. The current cars that they have used during their season the “barge boards” and other aerodynamic furniture are designed to send vortices under the floor to increase the downforce, but the vortices started to stop working. But now the underfloor downforce is going to be better preserved with the tunnels, wake-sensitive, vortex-generating geometries and ergo better following. Lewis Hamilton said, “Shat the 2022 car will be a serous challenge getting used to a new car, new aero of car, and if unable us to follow and race likes it’s planned to they think it will be amazing for the season.”
During their off season the motorsports team have test run about 7,500 simulations and creating around half a petabyte of data. Meanwhile, the teams have also been granted regulatory freedom to test the current 2022 car iteration or the ‘uniform’ baseline as it’s known internally, given that it’s the 21st significant update for methodology development in their wind tunnels and CFD, with the feedback from the teams having been a crucial part of the design and development process. The F1’s team motorsports team are confident that they’ve come up with a set of regulations that can achieve their objective of closer racing, while not being so prescriptive that they prevent activity. The 2022 car was also developed in a Suaber’s wind tunnel in Switzerland, with 138 baseline configurations experimented with over two years, with around 100 ‘wind on hours’.
