Lando Norris has asserted he is keen to avoid seeing F1 become too \u201cfake\u201d and deviating from traditional racing methods.<\/p>\n
F1 is set for a major technical regulation change next year, with significant changes coming to the power units and aerodynamics.<\/p>\n
Drivers have outlined the challengers will need a much different approach to the current cars in order to extract pace.<\/p>\n
With the battery having a dramatic increase in output alongside core changes to the chassis, it has been marked as one of the biggest regulation changes in F1 history.<\/p>\n
While Norris is expecting bigger gaps in the field, he stated the racing will not necessarily be worse.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s different, it\u2019s good and different in different ways,\u201d he told media including\u00a0RacingNews365.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think F1, in terms of the pinnacle of motorsport and speed and everything, you don\u2019t get much better than what we\u2019ve had this year and the last few years.<\/p>\n
\u201cNext year, the gaps will be bigger. It doesn\u2019t mean racing is going to be worse. I think there are many things that are going to make racing better.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just don\u2019t want to go too artificial with things. I don\u2019t want things to be too fake, too scripted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s correct. That\u2019s not motorsport and that\u2019s not what I like.\u201d<\/p>\n
Understanding how to make the best use of the battery during the lap will likely be a key element to performance next year.<\/p>\n
Norris is anticipating the cars will look less speculator due to the extreme changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cars are going to be even slower in the corners and things like that,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re not going to look as spectacular in terms of performing laps. They\u2019re not going to look as quick because at the end of straights, you\u2019re losing speed, you\u2019re decelerating.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not going to look as cool or as special. There are still things I would like more from the car, more battery and things like that. We could just have some more normality in it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a new challenge for everyone. We should all look forward to the challenge of a new car and new regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The McLaren driver added he is keen for F1 to avoid introducing gimmicks that create an artificial feel to racing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s also what makes F1 exciting at times – it\u2019s a fresh start for everyone and we look forward to it as a team, it\u2019s something we relish,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a driver, we want cars that we can just drive.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t want to do all this DRS nonsense \u2013 I just want to drive the car.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to upshift, downshift, and that\u2019s it. That\u2019s what I enjoy. You\u2019ll see, you can push it the most and you can be the most on the limit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris has asserted he is keen to avoid seeing F1 become too \u201cfake\u201d and deviating from traditional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-77073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}