This is dependent on a few things. Although engines do have a fundamental peak torque and power at a certain RPM, and the higher it is the more a commentator will say it’s “tuned for top speed” this isn’t always the case. Gearboxes can be tuned more readily for high speed or better acceleration. A wider gear ratio makes a car accelerate slower, but have a higher top speed, and vice versa.

DRS zones benefit those who have tuned their gearboxes for a higher top speed, but these teams do lose out on acceleration as a penalty. All teams can modify their gearboxes and final drive ratio to their heart’s extent. It’s not favouring one team or another, and it’s certainly not trying to put one team down. It’s just adding another variable to an increasingly complicated expression to find optimum performance.

Everyone not in an Austrian car is smiling

Spanish eyes are smiling

I think they’ll set-up Hungary so that you reach the detection point for the second zone before making a pass in the first so that the second zone simply helps to make the pass stick.

DRS benefits the guy behind regardless of relative straight-line speed.

More interesting is the changes in qualifying and the proportion of a lap each team could activate DRS for before this year – those using it in the corners have more to lose from the new limits.