Carlos Sainz: Changes in drivers’ competitiveness could be down to F1 rules era
Carlos Sainz suggests F1 regulation changes may explain driver performance swings across eras.
- Sainz theorizes that shifts in driver competitiveness relate to F1 rules changes.
- The ground-effects era and new regulations have influenced driver performance variability.
Carlos Sainz has posed a theory about why F1 has seen swings in performance and competitiveness for drivers between the ground-effects era and the new regulations
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