It would be hilarious if all this could be pinned on them placing Hamilton and Russell's input at the forefront of their design. Of course, The Simpsons did it first.
Just like Ferrari and Bridgestone could not handle races without tyre changes in 2005. Or how Renault could not build a strong hybrid power unit. Or perhaps a look way back to the past how some teams could not create a working ground effect car back in the early 80's. Regulation changes can hit all teams differently. Red Bull has the advantage on having the only f1 designer who actually still remembers the original ground effect cars. The others are either dead or too old to come back from retirment.
This isn't the usual struggling with a change of regs though, this is outright "we can't validate our own simulation data", that's a major failure of engineering competence. Validation of simulations is basic shit I would expect most engineers with a couple of years industry experience to have a good understanding of and be able to put systems in place throughout the development of the system to incrementally validate the simulation.
To be fair, Newey should be retired too. It's just that he enjoys making air his bitch too much.
It also helps tha he's one of the most talented designers in F1 history.
You also do have to remember that a lot of these teams can't simply just copy a working design, they have to come up with own designs or at the very least, procure documentation to ensure that when FIA comes to them and says "Say, did you copy this diffuser design from Newey?" they have enough asscoverage to not get penalized.
Even the Lego form of Hamilton looks smug as fuck, AI is becoming more terrifying each day.
So it's going to be an hour of start delayed, 2 laps behind the safety car, radio of Hamilton crying about how dangerous it is, then race cancelled then?
Qualifying is 3AM and Race 2AM my time so taking a pass on both. I'll catch both episodes on the reruns. Its funny but in the distant and somewhat recent past I'd be staying up to watch that shit. Even the practices I'd watch live. Now....
