Formula 1 racers have differing opinions on the FIA’s technical directive aimed at countering the effects of such an unpleasant phenomenon as the accumulation of cars at high speeds. This document was sent to the teams Thursday before the Canadian weekend when it was too late to do anything, and the response to it was highly controversial.
We wrote that this technical guideline has not had any effect so far, but it can be assumed that there is still some work going on behind the scenes, as the appearance was mainly caused by safety and concern for the health of the riders. But even their attitude to this federation initiative is far from the same.
George Russell and Carlos Sainz, for example, support it, and the Spanish Ferrari driver believes that FIA experts should listen to the drivers’ arguments, not the teams, when studying the issue.
“We have asked the FIA to study the matter so that they don’t listen to the teams, but to us – the ones who feel all these blows,” said Carlos. – It got to the point where we all have serious problems with the build. And it is imperative that the FIA takes action as soon as possible.”
We also quoted the opinion of Max Verstappen, who is categorically against such interference from the FIA, but it is interesting that in this case Charles Leclerc rather agrees not with his partner, but with his opponent in the battle for the title .
“I understand Russell’s point of view, because if you saw, for example, the state of Lewis Hamilton when he stepped out of the cockpit of the car in Baku, it made a very difficult impression,” RacingNews365 quotes Leclerc. – This is unacceptable. On the other hand, one should not underestimate the enormous work done by our team in recent months to solve the problem.
This has been our priority from the very beginning of testing these machines. Ferrari has made a very serious effort to find a solution and we have already made significant improvements. Turns out all this work was done in vain, and just because one of the teams is having more trouble with their car than the rest?
This is my take on what’s going on. I understand that everything is bad with Mercedes, but I also think there are other solutions.”
Source: F1 News
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