Cars has changed.
The prediction made in 2022 was to reduce the drag resistance of the car using the bottom of the car.
In the 1st year of this generation of cars it was true, cars was able to follow in dirty air.
In just 2 years teams empowered their cars and now if they are following in dirty air they will lose drag, so we are going again to have the 2020 problem when cars weren't unable to follow in turns due the loss of drag.
Well the first two races just emphasized that this is going to be an extremely boring season for the third consecutive time,no one is getting even closer to Redbull,they are racing in another league as Fernando Alonso claimed yesterday through radio,do we have any plan B as these guys are racing in another league showing the frustration of the team being nowhere near competition together with all other teams.The bad thing is that I highly doubt any team will improve their car in order to be at least competing or trying to against Redbull this time,there is no drag problem for me,it is no competition at all and this is the biggest problem of F1 2024.
At this point, I think it's a bit more regards to rest of the cars, like remove Max and even Perez from the calculations, and you start to see a real fight. For example last year Mercedes finished with 409 points at second place, but Ferrari had 406 points, ONLY THREE points behind, and became third, if you really watched that close then you would see some fun in that battle.
Or for example Mclaren finished fourth, but they were nowhere to be found at the start of the season, they had one of the worst cars in all of the track, whereas Aston Martin had a beast, they almost even won races, whereas at the end of the season Mclaren finished above Aston Martin to be fourth. If you watched their race, that was quite fun too. So as you can see, if you stop checking who is first, then you can find many battles in every part of it.