The idea behind DRS Overtaking Aid was to create a stacking plaster solution for the problem created by Aerodemics in F1.
That is, make the car performance depend on the bottom power, and the overtaking will always be difficult because the interruption of the air flow above each other reduces its grip and makes it difficult to follow closely.
The purpose of the DRS was to imitate a slip stream – the advantage of the straight line for the back car – and the plan was not to indiscriminately, but to make overtaking.
It has not always been easy to try to balance these demands – sometimes overtaking is very easy. Sometimes it is still.
This meant just a temporary solution. And when the current rules were considered, it was hoped that it could be rejected, as the following would be very easy. Before being introduced in 2022, it appeared that this would not happen.
Now, another rule seat has forced another solution. But the reason is not that the DRS has not worked. The reason for this is that the opening wing of the back wing has to be added to the front wing to balance the energy requirements of the new cars with its new hybrid engines.
From 2026, there will be a ‘push -to -pass’ system that promotes the extra energy energy for the car. It’s more artificial than DRS, and what it will do, is far from the only question hanging on the new rules.
