Sunday, 3 April 2011  So How the Heck Does DRS Work?  DRS or the
Drag Reduction System is a new feature of F1 this year and I
think its going to be one of the more important features of the
championship. So I thought I would spend a little while
explaining how it actually works because as usual, what started
out as a simple idea has been made a little more complicated
than it should be.  First off the easy bit, what is DRS. From a
mechanical point of view all it consists of is a moveable
element in the rear wing. The driver pushes a button, one of the
rear wing sections moves to be flatter to the air. Drag is
reduced and the car goes faster, simple! This is obviously only
useful on straights because it also reduces grip. The car
apparently loses around 5% drag so we can assume its at least
that much  in grip too. On corners this can be regarded as a
'Bad Thing'. Now a higher top speed means that compared to
another car without the DRS system activated you stand a far
better chance of being able to get in fron