FIA president Jean Todt believes For🔯mula 1 is becoming too reliant on “hidden simulation”, which he feels has become bღad for the sport.

Restrictions on in-season teওsting have resul💧ted in teams increasingly using simulator drivers at their factory bases to help improve car set-ups and development throughout the season based on data gathered from the track.

But Todt reckons this is having a negative impact on F1, especially for fans who are not able to witness the behind-closed-doors approach to F1 deveꦍlopment🦩.

“Things are changing, sometimes forꦫ the good, sometimes less good,” Todt said in an interview w💫ith Sky Sports F1.

“I feel that cars are too reliab💝le. I feel [there’s] too muchไ happening that you don’t see.

“Simulation, drivers simulating race circuit in the factoryꦍ during the race weekend or any other period without any limitation.

“In a waꦐy I miss sometimes the past. I miss priv🦋ate testing, everybody was complaining it’s too much private testing.

“At least you could see what was happening.”

Tod💧t suggested F1 would benefit from tighter restrictions surrounding how teams are able to use the data they collect.

“Probaꦚbly it was too much but now I think it’s too much hidden simulation in the factory,” 🅰he added.

"Clearly so🐼metimes modernity is good but it should be also⛦ a bit more controlled.”