1997 F1 champion Damon Hill has admitted he is \u201cworried\u201d about how the drivers will manage the new power units this year.<\/p>\n
A major regulation change has seen greater emphasis placed on the battery, with the electric output now creating a 50\/50 split with the combustion engine.<\/p>\n
The drivers put the power units through the test last month in Barcelona at a shakedown event.<\/p>\n
George Russell confirmed that the drivers are implementing new techniques, such as downshifting at the end of the straight when the battery runs dry.<\/p>\n
Hill, however, thinks it could create issues when they go wheel-to-wheel racing later in the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a bit worried about how they manage this, when they’re having to recharge at the end of the straight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you’re slipstreaming a car and it suddenly starts to slow down\u2026 they used to have the flashing light when they were charging.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut now they’ll all be doing it – so we’re going to get some disparity of speed towards the end of the straight between people because they have to charge their batteries.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wonder whether they’re going to do something like make their engine almost literally just a charging device for the battery.\u201d<\/p>\n
The importance of battery deployment could see competitors use it to catch a rival out, with several drivers commenting that overtakes in unconventional spots could be more common this year.<\/p>\n
It means the racing could be somewhat different to what fans are used to watching.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s going to be so interesting and very confusing for us outside to watch it,\u201d Hill added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that F1 will be giving us all the graphics, and you’ll be able to see what state the car is in.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it is going to be interesting trying to learn this from the outside.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1997 F1 champion Damon Hill has admitted he is \u201cworried\u201d about how the drivers will manage the new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-462269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}