The dust hasn't even really settled on the most gripping Formula One season this side of the Millennium, and already we are thrust into the clutches of another campaign.
Given that a regulation overhaul had been long mooted for 2022 - originally slated for 2021 before a delay - this year was always going to provide intrigue.
We don't have long to wait now to find out how the sport's leading teams have responded to the challenge of the radical reset because this weekend it's "go, go, go" as the great Murray Walker used to say, with the 10 teams and 20 drivers assembling on the grid for the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.
Regulation changes
One of the pet peeves in the most recent generation of F1 cars was the difficulty in being able to follow in the dirty air of the car in front.
Part of the regulation changes brought in for this year is a shift in aerodynamic design that is aimed at mitigating that previous flaw and will in theory allow for more exciting on-track duels.
The changes are also eminently visible with the front wings, side-pods and rear wings altered significantly as one could see with the different approaches teams took in their respective designs as was evident during pre-season testing in Barcelona and Bahrain.
One issue the teams, to varying degrees, have come up against is "porpoising" which is where the car bounces up and down as it drives down the straight, a side-effect of the new changes which they will hope to have ironed out sooner rather than later.
The effect of the Pirelli tyre performance and management in-race has also been a bugbear in recent years so a change to 18-inch wheels has been brought in to reduce overheating and improve durability.
The elephant in the stewards' room...
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