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**NofFoomiTot** · 04-19-2010, 07:09 PM

That's a good point. IMO the amount of overtakes in 2010 is artificially increased by the three slow new teams, because if a driver from an established team hits trouble early in the race, he can easily get 6 scalps sooner or later. And regardless of the toughness of overtaking in modern F1, the new teams are too slow to have much chance of holding anyone up long-term. I think partly that's how we got 21 (?!) overtakes in Bahrain. Wasn't it Hülkenberg, who dropped to the back in the beginning before starting to overtake cars from new teams?

Indeed, and it brings up the question of how much of the overtaking back in the 80's was also due to larger differences in car performance across the field. And conversely, how much of the decline in these overtaking statistics is down to equalisers like control tyres and restrictive engine rules, rather than the aero issues.

04-19-2010, 07:09 PM	#20
NofFoomiTot Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 429 Senior Member	That's a good point. IMO the amount of overtakes in 2010 is artificially increased by the three slow new teams, because if a driver from an established team hits trouble early in the race, he can easily get 6 scalps sooner or later. And regardless of the toughness of overtaking in modern F1, the new teams are too slow to have much chance of holding anyone up long-term. I think partly that's how we got 21 (?!) overtakes in Bahrain. Wasn't it Hülkenberg, who dropped to the back in the beginning before starting to overtake cars from new teams? Indeed, and it brings up the question of how much of the overtaking back in the 80's was also due to larger differences in car performance across the field. And conversely, how much of the decline in these overtaking statistics is down to equalisers like control tyres and restrictive engine rules, rather than the aero issues.
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