with michael schumacher and again williams struggled thanks to the ban of electronic gizmos such as active suspension and traction control so history tells us there is potential for change in NUMBER_TOKEN but there are new elements in the mix that could potentially make this even more likely we'll talk about those in a moment but first thanks for watching this video from the race if you're enjoying it don't forget to hit like and if you haven't already done so you can subscribe to our channel to make sure you don't miss anything your support is what allows us to do what we do and we have a huge amount of exciting video content planned for NUMBER_TOKEN for you to enjoy fNUMBER_TOKEN cars are changing significantly but there have also been big changes that are less easy to see in recent times these combine to create a perfect storm in NUMBER_TOKEN firstly fNUMBER_TOKEN's cost cap regulations these kicked in last year with the NUMBER_TOKEN million baseline limit dropping to NUMBER_TOKEN million this year of course teams will spend more than that partly because there's a few adjustments that mean the real figure is slightly higher but mainly because there's plenty of exclusions including driver costs the pay of the top three executives and myriad other business expenses that's a huge change in the way the teams operate and will prevent the biggest teams from using brute force spending there's now an even bigger emphasis on efficiency and the impact of the cost cap on the day-to-day operation of large teams like mercedes and red bull cannot be underestimated however the biggest teams aren't only at the front because they spend more and the razer sharp working practices and vast depth of technical knowledge can balance that out so the NUMBER_TOKEN cars will be a test of how strong a team is with the financial playing field a little more level secondly there's the impact of the aerodynamic testing regulations these restrictions which allocate win toddler runs and cfd items based on constructors championship position with the leading teams having the least kicks in last year and mean that red bull and mercedes had less than anyone however over the course of NUMBER_TOKEN the two teams had the same amount as red bull led the constructors championship at the halfway point of the season this means that they each had six months of the minimum allocation mercedes and red bull will still have an advantage on at least some of their rivals in terms of the way they use their aerodynamic testing resources because efficiency is a big thing but the NUMBER_TOKEN car will be the first they have designed under these conditions what's more the difference in aerodynamic testing restrictions becomes bigger this year with a NUMBER_TOKEN increment between teams that means that mercedes has just NUMBER_TOKEN percent of the maximum and red bull NUMBER_TOKEN this means if either or both start the season slowly they are also limited in terms of aerodynamic testing as they attempt to recover until the allocations are reset at the start of july that is these changes mean that mercedes and red bull have had to design and develop their cars with reduced resources compared to what they have historically been used to and with less aerodynamic testing compared to rivals as the NUMBER_TOKEN cars are a clean sheet of paper design with very limited parts carryover requiring a massively different philosophy given the return of the ground effect venturi tunnels on each side of the car this is a huge test to the capabilities of red bullet mercedes
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