One of the plagues of F1 of recent years is certainly the regulation sporty. How many times have we found ourselves talking, analyzing and above all contesting certain decisions made by the race commissioners FIA? Many, too many: we focus especially on the issue track limitswhich on certain tracks such as that ofAustria for example, over the years they have had such a decisive role that those who made the decisions became the protagonists Race Control than the pilots themselves.
Here, this should be the first thing to change: the main role must always be assigned to the driver on the track, it is not possible that the Federation you override all this with sanctions that raise noses, raise eyebrows and in some ways make you feel sick. Another example? Canada 2019, Vettel penalized and first at the finish line, but not a winner. An unprecedented blunder, fortunately.
There F1 is already technically complicated in itself, in short not everyone stops to understand how a power unit is made or what an aerodynamic appendage is really used for: it’s there, for goodness sake, and for this reason therefore the spectator shouldn’t be put in further difficulty.” medium”, pass the term to us, with sanctions, penalties and decisions that do nothing but create confusion.
In the end we are talking about a sport that has become increasingly difficult from a technical point of view in recent years, but also as regards the sporting side, between penalties, engine changes and various stuff, certain dynamics are not exactly immediate. We should make a change, perhaps by completely or mostly rewriting the regulations on the sporting side, well, that would already be a huge step forward.
F1, Domenicali does not accept these sporting regulations
The regulation of F1 However, according to the words of CEO Stephen Sundays, it should also benefit the public themselves, as well as the competition on the track. In short, something needs to be done mix to satisfy all the protagonists of the Circusand the fans, whether they are at the racetrack or at home, are part of this movement, paying considerable sums of money for travel, tickets or television subscriptions.
The former team main from the Ferrari, putting himself in the shoes of a wall boss, explained how from a sporting point of view the regulations are too complicated, and for example the penalty system is incomprehensible to many of his former colleagues. It’s something that F1 Commission will have to analyze in the near future. If the rules are unclear for the first real protagonists of the Circuslet alone for the spectators.
Stephen so take off the toy again and try to identify with the enthusiast: by focusing too much on the details you risk dramatically losing the general picture of the issue. The Imola native also takes as an example what happened to Monk last month: the regulations say that under a red flag, teams are allowed to change tires and effectively skip the mandatory stop.
It’s something that obviously killed the competition on a track where overtaking is practically impossible, especially on the first lap and with tires that last an eternity. The feeling therefore is that we will never see something like this again, and most likely something in the sporting regulations will be changed, perhaps not allowing drivers to change tires under a red flag, or not counting that change as pit–stop mandatory, in short there can be many paths to follow.
“Something like this must never happen again: we must better predict certain scenarios and use the regulation to avoid them. In the past the rules were written on very thin packets, today they are very thick tomes.” The good is very clear Stephen in his latest analysis, and we feel like sharing his statement. But be careful not to exaggerate, because over the years we have seen many, too many things that are not going well, and we are also referring to the desperate search for show.
Yes why Sundays he’s the same one who some time ago said how free practice wasn’t attractive to the public, who fully embraced that nonsense Sprint Raceand which in short, perhaps under American influence, is trying in every way to reward something that can be considered fictitious to the detriment of sportsmanship, see what happened in Melbourne 2023ask theAlpine it’s at Carlos Sainz for further references. So yes, preach well, but we expect everything to also be confirmed during implementation.
Author: Andrea Bovone
Images: F1 – GP Canada 2019 – Scuderia Ferrari
