Mercedes chief James Allison thinks Max Verstappen would side with him over F1 rules criticism

F1 introduced entirel📖y new technical regulations for the start of 2022 in a bid to imp🍎rove the wheel-to-wheel racing between competitors.
While that aspect has been improved, the cars have become heavier and wider, but also stiffer, making them lessဣ satisfying to drive.
Allison isn’t aꦜ fan of the current set of regulations, descri♍bing it as a “bug-bear of mine”.
“I'm sure I bang on about this because it's been a bug-bearꦆ, of mine, but I personally don't think it's a great thing,” Allison said.
“I don't think it's good having the cars operating, when they leave the g🅘arage, wi♌th that much space to the ground.
“You get the ꦏperson who's winning the championship by one of the biggest margins🌃 ever, and has every reason to love his car to bits, and I doubt he'll tell you it's a lovely thing. It is not like it was a couple of years ago.”
It’s in stark contrast to the era of cars which saw M𒁏ercedes regularly compete at the front.

As explained by Allison, the car👍s from 2021 would run between 120mm to 140mm from the ground compared to just 60mm in F1 2023.
“You guys [the media] used to carry on endlessly about high-rake, low-rake cars as if that was the beginning, end,🐼 and middle of everything,” he added.
“A high-rake car was ℱaround 140mm [rear ride height]. A low-rake car would be like 120mm or whatever. Well, both of them are stratospheric ranges compared with these cars.
“These are all cars that are set🥃ting off in the 60mms. T꧋here might be a few millimetres of difference between them, but they're all just on the ground.”
“And it's hard to persuade the car to do a𓆏ll of those things with a set of rules that basically don't want to do anything except be near the ground.”

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