An uncertain future

The testing season is finally over. I say finally because nothing is certain, nothing seem defined and it is a pain to comment on pure speculation.
We have seen cars which occupied the top of the ladder last year, struggling at the bottom of the sheets. We have watched 2013 losers scoring best lap times in 2014 and with consistency. Whats going on? Shuffling a deck of cards brings back the emotion of a winning chance and this is what happened at the beginning of this year’s F.1 season during testing: a mad croupier called for a re shuffle and, like a miracle… the show is back on !
One factor seems to emerge from all of this: The engine, or the power unit as we must call it this year, is back on the protagonist’s throne. We have for sometime taken for granted the old V8 sitting at the back of the driver’s seat and considered it as a standard ballast, confined to its regulatory limits. Today, thanks to a drastic change of its definition and design, this new source of power has suddenly become the most important part of the package. Are the aerodynamics still as vital as they have always been? Not at this stage of the game. They will come back, though, but only when the Teams will have PU’s sorted out. Targets will then be moved to finding downforce again. I still say: let’s wait for the first round of qualifying in Melbourne before proclaiming winners and losers, remembering that, shortly after Q3, there is a race to be run…