Data map: Hamilton drives a Mercedes car.

　　China News Service, January 12th. Two months later, the new F1 season will begin, and now, some teams have begun intense research and development preparations.

There will be many adjustments in the rules of the F1 competition in the new season. F1 officials have recently interpreted this.

　　Affected by the epidemic, the major changes to F1 technical rules that were originally scheduled to be introduced in 2021 have been postponed to 2022.

This year, all teams will continue to use last year's car chassis, and there will be no major changes to the overall rules.

If you go into the details, there will be some fine-tuning of the aerodynamic rules.

　　The biggest change in F1 in 2021 does not come from the car, but from the race itself.

F1 has introduced budget cap rules for the first time in history. The "budget cap" for the 2021 season is finally set at 145 million U.S. dollars, and will be further reduced to 140 million U.S. dollars in 2022, and then to 135 million U.S. dollars in 2023.

Data map: The 2020F1 competition in Germany will be held at the Nürburgring.

　　The "budget cap" will cover many aspects of running an F1 fleet, but does not include marketing costs, driver salaries, and the salaries of the three highest paid employees in the fleet.

In addition, employees’ various vacation expenses, medical benefits and layoff expenses are not included.

　　In addition, F1 will introduce an unprecedented aerodynamic research and development ratio floating rule from this year.

The team that ranks lower in the 2020 year-end results list will get more CFD and wind tunnel usage time in the 2021 season, and they will have more time to develop the aerodynamic design of the 2021 and 2022 cars.

　　Mercedes will get the least aerodynamic R&D time in 2021, while Williams will have the most R&D time. This ratio of R&D time will further change in the next few years.

Data map: The 2020 F1 season opener is held in Austria,

　　The DAS, which has attracted much attention during the pre-season testing of the 2020 season, will be banned.

The DAS system is a dual-axis steering system. The working principle is that the driver changes the toe angle of the front wheels by pushing and pulling the steering wheel in the cockpit, so that the car will show some different characteristics in corners and straights.

　　The only team affected by this rule is Mercedes, because only they have the DAS system.

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