Formulation 1, by its very nature, is all about contemplating the long run. Sooner automobiles, higher drivers, making extra money.
And within the yr the place the world championship is celebrating its seventy fifth anniversary, Formulation One Administration bosses have already got a shrewd eye on what shall be its largest commemoration but: 100 years of F1 in 2050.
They’re not alone. Motorsport.com’s sister publication, Autosport journal, already assessed a McLaren idea for 2050 F1 automobiles again in 2019 – when it was prompt these might maybe attain 300mph, have ‘self-healing’ tyres and have an AI co-driver.
However, whereas we will’t know if any of these Tomorrow’s World-style concepts will certainly come to go, we do find out about one tiny slice of how F1 100 goes to be celebrated.
The primary supply is Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso, who revealed he was the one up to date F1 driver invited to a particular ‘legends dinner’ soiree in London forward of the F1 75 Stay launch occasion on the O2 enviornment final month.
“I feel Lewis and Max have been busy final evening,” Alonso quipped about his rivals Hamilton and Verstappen, of Ferrari and Pink Bull.
“It was good,” Alonso added concerning the occasion. “I had the chance to see numerous acquainted faces.
“It was good to see Giancarlo Minardi – my first boss – there. Bernie [Ecclestone]. Luca di Montezemolo, with [whom] clearly I’ve a superb friendship. Legend Mario Andretti was there, who I admired a lot. It was good.
Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin Racing
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“And Formulation 1, particularly with the seventy fifth anniversary, they tried to do some motion and a few cool stuff. Perhaps some gossip, and one factor that we did there was that we wrote on a paper, all of us, a phrase or no matter you needed to place.
“And so they closed a field and it is going to be opened in 25 years and the one hundredth anniversary of Formulation 1. Will probably be good for the subsequent technology.”
After Alonso, 43 and set to begin his twenty second F1 racing season at subsequent weekend’s Australian GP, joked “I should be on the desk!” as a up to date member of the 2050 F1 driving pack, he mischievously declined to disclose what he had written.
“To open that field and see what’s written there [will be good],” he mentioned.
“I can’t say [what I wrote]. However lets say 25 years in the past, the technology of champions again then [in 2000], in the event that they wrote one thing, it will be good to learn it now.
“I feel it was a good suggestion.”
Motorsport.com understands that each one attendees on the F1 legends dinner have been requested to particularly write a be aware about what they consider the championship or their reminiscences of competing in it or watching it.
Their papers have been then collated and positioned in particular person tube capsules that shall be sealed inside a bigger container to be opened at a particular celebratory occasion in 2050 in true ‘Time Capsule’ fashion.
Sources recommend the workplace of F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali is behind this specific commemoration of F1 historical past.
When the notes from F1 75 are revealed, it’s anticipated that they are going to be proven publicly and any predictions or feedback assessed towards subsequent developments in F1.
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