Seba𝓀stian Vettel believes it would b💙e “comical” if Formula 1 produces slower cars next season having already recently changed the rules to make current-spec machinery faster. 

F1 will introduce simplified aerodynamic regulations for 2019 in a bid to help increase overtaking following repeated complaints, but the tweaks could come at a cost, with FIA single-seater❀ technical chief Nikolas Tombazis predicting ne🙈xt year’s cars will be up to 1.5 seconds slower than this season. 

The sport's regulations were altered h꧒eading into 2017 as F1 introduced wider, faster and more aggressive cars to helꦏp improve the show, with numerous lap records being broken across the course of last season as drivers hailed the changes.

“I find it a bit comical,” Vettel said. “Why? In 2009 we went ‘oh let’s go, less aerodynamics and better 🍌racing’, and in fact it didn’t change too much. Then we said the cars were too slow, let’s go put more aerodynamic and make them wider, more spectacular. 

“The drivers' feedback was 'thank you very much, spectacular, that’s what we like'. You see us more exhausted after the races now the🉐y want to make us slower again. I don’t know. It’s a bit like, I don’t know, cruising to America then changing direction a hundred times.”

Vettel fღeels F1 and the FIA should have taken driver’s views into consideration before making regulation changes.

“I think you should ask us what we need to overtake," Vettel said. "We are drivers. Not to say that we know everything, we don’t know anything about engineering a car but we know how to drive the cars, the feel, how to drive the cars and then what it takes to overt꧒ake. But 🐼they don’t really ask.”

Lewis Hamilton, who set a new lap record (1m16.173s) around the newly-resurface🔴d Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya as he secured pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix, agreed with the German and doubts the tweaks will improve racing. 

“If you makeꦬ us three seconds slower or a second and a half slower, it’s not goin🙈g to make the racing any better and we just want to go faster, we want to improve technology, we want to push the boundaries and the limits,” he explained. 

“Is it the same people makin♔g the decisions every time, the same group, making the decision every time the rules go… not necessarily the best?. We should make the decisions.”