If there was any evidence that trends truly come and go, just note the alarming rebirth of the mullet over the past couple of years. Although the mullet probably sat in the pantheon of objects best left in the 1980s, like Reaganomics, New Coke and the Atari 5200, the return of the neck-tickling barnet into the stylistic vernacular certainly demonstrates that nothing is ever really new.
Formula 1 has endured similar phases of faddishness, sometimes reheated and served up warm having spent decades sitting at the back of the freezer. Ground effects came back, turbos came back. And now the FIA’s president is talking about a return of naturally aspirated V8s, having previously touted V10s run on sustainable fuels as an option.
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