So how do we know? In the lead up to what became the 2009 regulations (delayed due to insufficient time from the original plan of 2008) specific research was done into the aerodynamics of following cars. For 2017/18 changes were made which we knew would make overtaking more challenging. Given the challenges faced particularly since the introduction of the 2017 rules, the 2019 rules were devised in the interim to try to halt the obvious damage to the ability of the cars to overtake. The reality of F1 in the last 20 years appears to be proving this to be untrue. Aerodynamic experts, most of us that is, have long believed that good aerodynamic downforce combined with the ability to race is possible. I fully expect these to be a significant step in the direction of making overtaking easier, hopefully without the need for a false overtaking aid (the DRS). Together, the rule makers (the FIA) and Formula One Management (FOM) are collaborating on rules for the longer term. I have been inspired to write this, perhaps a little earlier than I had originally envisaged, because I have been reading some truth and rather a lot of invented fiction about these 2019 cars.
Most of the main protagonists are still there but there have certainly been a few surprises. 4 cars, 4 different designs, but two obviously different design philosophies
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