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F1 rulers leave global audience confused
HOCKENHEIM: Formula One’s rule-makers took another U-turn on Saturday when they agreed a compromise on track limits at the first corner of the Hockenheim circuit.
HOCKENHEIM: Formula One’s rule-makers took another U-turn on Saturday when they agreed a compromise on track limits at the first corner of the Hockenheim circuit.
In the process, they left a global audience of fans, team staff and drivers confused and puzzled.
It was just one more in a series of rule changes made almost daily in the last week in a season of upheaval that began with uproar over a controversial new qualifying format introduced at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
Last weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix saw a stewards investigation into the meaning of waved double yellow flags which will, this weekend at the German Grand Prix, automatically engage a red flag and stop the action.
Radio communications, which had been severely restricted and resulted in penalties for leading drivers, were relaxed this week following a meeting of the F1 strategy group.
Asked to comment, on his 35th birthday on Friday, Alonso said: “I don’t care... I give up. They can tell us what they need to in every race.
“I think it was at Spa, last year, that they got tough in terms of the radio and so on... Now, nothing has changed – or it is worse, we are going back.”
