While that is an aim of F1’s sporting bosses in the coming years, the device’s continuing usage remains disputed. However, as the latest generation of F1 cars have been designed to allow drivers to follow more closely with a reduced ‘dirty air’ effect, many people had hoped this would lead to DRS being dropped. While there have been plenty of occasions where its power has been deemed to be too great and so passes have occurred well before braking zones on straights, the tool is generally aimed at assisting overtaking when drivers would otherwise be stuck in dirty, turbulent air. Juan Pablo Montoya – the former F1 driver and double Indianapolis 500 winner famed for his bolshy passes in the era that predated DRS – compared the device to “giving Picasso Photoshop”.īut DRS is not a simple ‘overtake button’ that automatically means getting past the car in front. Therefore, it is often claimed that this takes away from the skill of pulling off a challenging overtaking manoeuvre.
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