Ross Brawn confirms: The new cars will definitely be there in 2022

Postpone

"“I think some teams pushed to delay them a further year", Brawn said about the new rules against Formula 1.com. "I think there’s a justifiable need to carry these [current] cars over into next year because we’re in the middle of the [lockdown]. That’s completely justified."

Budget cap

"The initiatives we’re bringing with these new regulations are to make the sport more economically viable in terms of the complexity, where the money is spent." Brawn continues. It was announced yesterday that there will be a new budget cap of $145 million from the 2021 season.

"With the cars we have now, they’re so complex that with the more you spend the quicker you’ll go and we need to level off that slope and create a situation where money is not the only priority in how competitive you’ll be", says Brawn. "Therefore, we need these new cars to even that slope."

"We still want the great teams to win – [but] we need to maintain the integrity of the sport, to have the best teams winning, [however,] I think to have a competitive form of racing with these new regulations, the new cars, they’re a bit further away – but they’re definitely coming in 2022", ends Brawn.