The year also saw an ultimately aborted effort to create no-blanket slicks for 2024, the successful introduction of a full wet that did work without blankets, a new construction introduced at the British GP to deal with ever-increasing downforce, and an end-of-season request from the F1 Commission to tackle the issue of overheating.
Then there were efforts to improve F1’s sustainability credentials with the alternative tyre allocation – eventually rejected by the teams – and the first attempt at remounting and giving a second life to unused wet tyres.
