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I'm of two minds, and looking forward to hearing live test reports - on wood, which is my own racing environment.

On the plus side, a range of easy to tune, easily compatible cars for a "one model class" are usually popular and provide good racing

But on the other, I am also not a great fan of F1 - coming from the bit of the planet where we have to hold on, or we fall off, F1 takes place while we sleep, and frankly most of us only know about 4 driver names and could only name maybe 3 teams.
And will the noses break off, and if so, how much more cost for replacement bodies - are they going to be available
And being a wood track racer - powerful inline boxers usually create issues of twisting pods and thus misaligning gears, or hopping, especially if the axle bushes are at a fairly narrow point relative to axle width.

Our club actually run the really old Scaley F1s built in the 1970s - half of which came with the Johnson motor, We set them all up with stock Scaley Mabuchi - just hot glued in, fit Ultragrips glued and trued, take out the axle bush slop with superlgue on oiled axle, fit a Slot.it guide, sleeve the front axle with brass tube and set max guide depth when hot gluing the brass tube in place.
Sounds really crude, but with that low powered motor, they run like trains on tracks, and on 60 - 90 foot wood tracks, do similar lap times would you believe to a blueprinted Slot.it Group C - simply because they are low, flat, wide and light, and go around corners like . . .  well like an F1 car with 2G of downforce.
And of course, the plastic on those old cars was pretty substantial, so we very seldom break a body.
So that works well, but a 21k Boxer - brutal....

So it will be interesting to see how they pan out.