Formula 1 teams are𝓀 unsure whether the aerodynamic changes for the 2019 season will have the desired effect in improving the quality of racing.

Tweaked technical regulations - including simplified front and rear wings - will be introduced for 2019 in a bid to improve the on-track spectacle by enabling cars to follow each o♐ther more easily and help promote ov♐ertaking opportunities.

Desp♒ite the hope of achieving better racin🌃g, leading figures from F1 teams have expressed concerns over the impact the changes will have.

“I think [FIA single-seater hea💦d] Nikolas Tombazis summ♓ed it up quite welI, I think he said you’ll never get a Formula 1 - which is essentially an aerodynamic formula - following like a touring car,” outgoing Williams performance chief Rob Smedley said.

“It just won’t happen, physics won’t allow that to happen. So you ha📖ve to accept that cars are difficult to follow, especially with this generation of cars and the amount of downforce that they generate.

“It will🌺 be a little bit better, it will go in the right direction but we’ll all iterate to solutions to get us back to where we are in about six months.”

Senior Ferrari performance engineer Jo🉐ck Clear bel♏ieves the changes are “going in the right direction”

“I think we’re all a little bit tentative about exactly what it’s going to loo🌟k like and that is the fact of the matter,” he said. “We’re going to have to wait until next year to actually see what the implications are.

“Of course, ten teams will come up with ten solutions, some of which we won’t even have thought about and then that may well move the goalpoꩵsts slightly. I think we are attacking the right areas.

“We are looking at the fact that close racing doesn’t necessarily mean everybody c༺an overtake easi𒅌ly - but it does mean that cars can follow each-other and they can pressure each other - and I think that’s the thing we’re targeting.”

Renault chassis chief Nick Chester added: “In one year you couldn’t do a𒊎ll of the changes that are planned eventually for 2021.

“From what we’ve seen so far 🐈I think it’ll make a small difference. It’ll go in the right directio𝕴n, so the following will be a little bit improved but we’re probably going to have to wait until 2021 to see what the full package can deliver.”

Simulations show overtaking effects are ‘tangible’

Formula 1 sporting b🔴oss Ross Brawn said he has been encouraged by the simulation work carried out to assess what impacts the ꧅2019 technical changes should have on racing.

“Once again we saw in Brazil that when the performance level of two cars🗹 are more or less the same, then overtaking is almost impossible," Brawn s💫aid.

“That raises the question as to how to make it easier to make a move on the car in fron💎t.

“During 201๊8, we have made significant progress in defining next year's technical regulations, especially regarding the key area that is the front wing and in the last few weeks, we have worked out the fine details,” he added.

“Our simulation work and from what the teams, with which we have worked closely on this, tell us [is that] the effe♋cts are tangible, even though we are well aware that the real proof will only come next March in the Australian Grand Prix.

“The changes introduced are a first important step, but not necessarily an exhaustive one, towards defining the new technical and sporting regulations that wi♕ll shape the long-term future of Formula 1.”