Four-time Formula 1 champion Alain Prost believes the Australian Grand Prix will not provide answers on whether design changes for 2019 have worked.
It was a dull first race in Melbourne last year which instigated the process that led to the implementation of wider, simpler front and rear wings with the hope of increasing overtaking on circuits with shorter straights.
After drivers got their first chance to try the new designs during testing, reactions were mostly positive as most pointed to the draggier rear wings and more powerful DRS as likely to be beneficial at a track like Albert Park.
“In testing, you don’t necessarily follow another car often, so we cannot say yet if it will be easier to follow and overtake, but there is a small tendency to say that is positive,” Prost was quoted by GPFans.com, questioning those assessments.
“I hope it will be positive, but I am not completely convinced that it will be day and night. We will not see the difference in Melbourne anyway because it is a circuit where it is always difficult to overtake.”
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The Frenchman, who is now an advisor at Renault, also maintains the whole exercise probably should have been put on hold.
“It was a change in the regulations that cost us a lot of money before another major change of regulation for 2021, the details of which are not yet known,” he claimed.
“Perhaps it would have been better to wait until 2021 and fundamentally change a lot more.”
