Former F1 driver Nico Hulkenberg says he's sampled in the simulator a 2022 design and reckons that this year's all-new F1 cars will be "pretty damn fast". Hulkenberg, who has pretty much given up on returning to F1's grid, was Aston Martin's reserve driver last season, a role that apparently gave him an opportunity to drive a new-spec car in the team's sim. With ground-effects the centerpiece of this year's regulation overhaul, F1's 2022 design should produce significantly less dirty air in a car's wake which in turn should allow drivers to follow each other more closely and encourage more overtaking. F1 technical director Pat Symonds recently suggested that this year's machine...
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