Discontinued motorsport model
03/12/2021
The big arms race for the second Formula 1 coronavirus season begins today with the three days of testing in Bahrain. Unfortunately, interest in motorsport is no longer what it was years ago.
However, Mick Schumacher could help to ensure that new European fan groups form again alongside the Dutch Verstappen fans, who will actively support motorsport when they are finally allowed to do so again due to coronavirus.
The ancient Romans already had chariot races in which men became heroes. And there has been motorsport ever since the wheels learned to turn, and still is today. For over 120 years, drivers have been competing with their cars around the globe and dreaming of fame and glory.
Experts agree that Mercedes-Benz will continue to dominate this season with Hamilton. Bottas will only be able to dream of the title in his last season at Mercedes. With Verstappen and Perez, Red Bull will have the strongest driver combination on the grid. If Adrian Newey succeeds in producing another great result, the two could be right up there at the front. McLaren will certainly be even better than in 2020, but there is a big question mark hanging over Ferrari when even Mattia Binotto is already talking about 2022 and sees 2021 as just a transitional year!
Vettel in the Aston Martin could be the surprise of the season, the Heppenheim driver has nothing to lose and he certainly hasn't forgotten how to drive.
So far so good, but unfortunately the great days of Senna and Mansell, Schumacher and Hakkinen, as well as Stewart and Fittipaldi, are history and the whole of motorsport is trying desperately to reinvent itself.
Formula 1 will race according to completely new regulations in 2022; there have never been such rigorous changes in all 71 years.
Despite the gigantic factory line-up, Formula E doesn't really interest a single tired soul. At first they were all euphoric when they joined, but then they quickly dropped out again.
Formula 2, 3 and 4 don't exist in the media at all.
The new hypercars will come to Le Mans with a lot of euphoria, the only question is for how long, because in the end only one can win. Unfortunately, however, there are again regulatory constraints that do not allow the cars to start everywhere.
The DTM will start with GT3 cars, which is certainly not a bad thing, because it is quite clear that motorsport as a whole must become much cheaper and much more attractive.
However, political electrification threatens to destroy the combustion engines, meaning that all the old "rubbish" would have to be scrapped.
Of course, we don't want that to happen and have only created this picture of the Senna Lotus 99 as a symbol.
