There's plenty to be excited for in F1 in 2023. Let's hope it's a good year ahead!
Looking ahead to F1 2023: Plenty of reasons for excitement but also room for improvementWith the 2022 season now in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to start getting excited about Formula 1 in 2023.
This means there are a huge amount of question marks for the new season.
All-in-all, 2023 is a reset of the chessboard, with the teams coming back to the table with far more knowledge and data than they had at the same point last season.2023 will be the third year of the Financial Regulations, with the budget cap set to tighten to $135 million to restrict each team’s car and performance-related spending to this figure.
However, the fact that Red Bull’s overspending breach from 2021 took so long to be rooted out means that it’s never quite possible to fully put a championship season behind us for months. The FIA’s analysis of the 2022 spending will be carried out in early 2023, with any overspending likely to meet with even harsher penalties.
There were plenty of such incidents throughout 2022, with Perez’s perhaps the most eye-catching, and it prompted Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz to comment that intentional incidents occur even more frequently than the media suspects. Whether fair or unfair on the individual driver involved, it’s perhaps time to introduce a firm and simple rule: bring out a red or yellow flag in a segment of qualifying, and your times in that segment are deleted.