Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel both agree that the decision to change the aero regulations for the 2019 season is misguided. The decision to make the cars slower in the hopes of improving overtaking received backlash after the efforts of making them faster in 2017 are already being scrapped.
The Spanish Grand Prix polesitter questioned whether the decision to make the cars slower for next season was the best course of action
"I don’t know if that’s… it’s not going to make any difference if you make us three seconds or one-and-a-half second slower, it’s not going to make the racing any better.
“We always want to go faster, we want to improve technology, push the boundaries and limits, one of the exciting things this year is we are breaking records.
“It’s incredible what the technology we have and what we’re doing with it, (next year) we should be at least as fast as we are this year (while) just making the racing better.”
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Vettel agreed and made the point that the drivers should have more input in helping decide regulation changes in the future.
“All the drivers feedback was ‘thank you very much, that’s what we like’, it’s more challenging, you see us more exhausted after the race and now you make them slower again!
“I don’t know, it’s a bit like cruising to America and changing direction 100 times.
“I think you should ask us what we need to overtake.
“We are drivers – not to say that we know everything, we don’t know anything about engineering the car – but we know how the cars feel, and their limitations to overtake, but we’re not really asked.”
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