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Horner: 2021 rules should make drivers the stars
Jake Williams-Smith
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says that the new 2021 rules should make the drivers the centre of attention.
The new rule set is largely aimed at reducing the inability for drivers to follow another car. Horner insisted that whatever is decided upon, drivers should look like the stars.
"That’s what Formula 1 desperately needs. It needs the drivers very much to be the stars, to be modern day chariot racers. We [must] have wheel-to-wheel, exciting, and to a degree unpredictable racing, because serial winning like we have at the moment [isn't what people want.]
"The teams in many respects are getting too good at predicting the outcome of a weekend with the updates they introduce. Hats off to Mercedes, they’ve done a better job than anybody to be in the position they are," he conceded. "It’s up to us, the teams competing against Mercedes, to close that gap down.
"But hopefully the technical regulations will be the biggest driver to shuffle that around and change that, and hopefully introduce more variance."
Formula 1 is set to unveil the new 2021 regulations in June if some reports are to be believed however Horner says that the deadline could be pushed back to as far as November.
Horner added that the new rules should also make the cars more simplistic, with the 2019 changes aimed around reducing the effects of 'dirty air' given off by the cars complex aerodynamic designs.
"It’s about finding that balance of when is the right time for full regulations to be released. I think the cars will be a lot simpler. Inevitably teams will get it right and teams will get it wrong."
