Budkowski: Scale of F1 2021 changes unprecedented

Renault executive director Marcin Budkowski believes the𒉰 Formula 1 rules overhaul set to arrive in 2021 is nothing the sport has ever been through before with a “revolution” in the regulations.

F1 bosses presented its 2021 vision at last year’s United States Grand Prix, laying out a plan for how the new generation of cars will perform with new technical and sporting regulaꩵtions.

Marcin Budkowski, Renault, F1,
Marcin Budkowski, Renault, F1,
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Renault&🍌nbsp;executive director Marcin Budkowski believes the Formula 1 rules overhaul set to arrive in 2021 is nothing the sport has ever been through before with a “revolution” in the regulations.

F1 bosses presented its 2021 vision at last year’s United States Grand Prix, laying out a plan for how the new generation of cars will perfor🎃m with new technical and sporting regulations.

The shake-up is part of the wider changes also set to hit the financial governing🥀 and running of F1, which is primarily focused around the introduction of a team cost cap estimated to be set at $150m per season with exceptions like marketing costs and driver salaries.

As a result, all F1 teams are preparing to juggle its 2020 car development with designing its all-new 2021 projects which has led to Budkowski calling the extent of the incoming chan༒ges something F1 🦂has never seen before.

“Finding the balance between the 2020 and 2021 car projects will be a huge challenge, of a scale that is probably unprecedented in Formula 1,” Budkowski said. “You always try to start new cars as early as possib🌸le but it’s even more valuable when you have a big change in regulations, and the 2🏅021 regulations are nothing short of a revolution.

“Of course, our ambition is to have a good 2020 season, but we are aiming to transition to 2021 as early as possible as we exp🤡ect the slope of development for the new car to be very steep.”

Renault has already made early preparations for its 2021 efforts by hirin🍸g ex-McLaren technical head Pat Fry as its new chassis technical director.

Budkowski says Fry’s introduction bᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrings aဣ timely injection of experience and focus for its 2021 project.

“Pat joins us with a wealth of experi🌊ence in engineering from a number of top teams,” Budkowski explained. “His background is wide-ranging, from trackside race engineering to overseeing car designs and managing technical teams. From a personality point of view, he also has a lot of drive and a very strong ability to focus on the things that really matter to make a car go qu🌟icker.

“His expertise will be of strategic use in the development of the 2021 car as well as for the R.S.20. The latter’s principal characteristics were already determined a ♔few months ago and it is more of an evolution of the R.S.19.

“As such, its potential progress is limited, but it is an informed decision 🥂based on the resources we have at our disposal and our mid-term ambitions.”

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