Red Bull boss Christian Horner frustrated by cost of "strange" F1 rule change that was “probably not needed"

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has hit out at the cost of the floor tweaks for F1 2023 and believes the regulation change was “probably not needed”. 
Horner frustrated by cost of F1 rule change that was “probably not needed

In a bid to eradicate the issues teams faced last year with the168澳洲5最新开奖结果: porpoising phenomenon, the FIA have pushed through168澳洲5最新开奖结果: changes for 2023 th🌠at have forced teams to raise the floor edges on their cars by 15mm. 

The FIA also intervened b✱y enforcing a new technical directive midway through last season amid a flexi-floor saga in which Mercedes suspected that Red Bull and Ferrari were pushing the boundaries of 🍌the rules. 

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Horner argued at the time it was unfair for the FIA to change the rules ove🐓r the porpoising complaints just because certain teams - mainly Mercedes - had not got on top of the issue. 

By the end of 2💫022 porpoising was no longer a big problem and Horner reckons the decision to implement 🦩tweaks for the upcoming campaign could prove to be an expensive knee-jerk reaction. 

“I think we have to wait and see, the first snapshot will be the testing in B🅰ahrain,” he told Au𝄹to Motor und Sport. 

“It’s a little bit strange, because obviously there was a big push to get all♑ of this changed, and the changes came through around Spa last year.

“But byꩵ the end of the year, there was very little porpoising.”

Horner added: “My argument at the time was will 🐠it not just get sorted out, w𒐪hich it did.

“So we’ve gone through quite a lot of expense, for all the teams in a 𓆉big regulati♐on change that probably wasn’t needed.”

But Nikolas Tombazis, the FIA’s single-seater director, insists the decision to make further changes for 2023 were necessary.&n✤bsp;

“I’ve got no doubt we did the right thing,” he said. “We tried to find🅰 a pragmatic, short-term solution and a medium-term solution. 

“It won’t necessarily di💜ssipate [porp𒉰oising] completely, but it will be a step less.”

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