WORDS ANDREW BENSON IMAGES PETER CROWTHER & BEN SUMMERELL-YOUDE
As a new year dawns, so does a new era of Formula 1. And this time it’s grand prix racing on steroids. This is a major shift in the sport’s focus, born of a desire to boost its ‘wow factor’, and an abrupt reversal of 50 years of history: not since the 1960s have rule-makers actively sought to make the cars quicker.