F1’s Park Closed restrictions have also been revised, giving teams more freedom to adjust their cars on sprint weekends than last year. Verstappen praised the change.”That’s a little better,” he said. “Sometimes you’re stuck and you know your weekend is ruined and you know you can’t really change anything. So it definitely helps.Alpine driver Pierre Gasly called the parc ferme change a “great” move.“I think that was missing, definitely,” he said. “We ended up last year having amazing, brilliant genius guys on a Friday afternoon being forbidden to touch anything on our car. And that’s what they are paid for, that’s why they are the best.”The previous sprint weekend arrangement left teams too little time to improve their cars, said Gasly.“It was a bit sad because they have much more to bring to the table than just one or two clicks of front [wing] flap and tyre pressure.
I think F1 is the pinnacle of technology and I think it’s great that we still give them the opportunity to make those constant improvements over the weekends.”You [didn’t] have time to try anything because you have an hour to practice, you’re pretty limited,” he added. “So it was always like working in the simulator and when you realized you didn’t start the weekend with the best settings, you had a very small window to react. I just thought it was definitely the right change.
“.I’m sorry to say that I believe some people are determined to find every possible problem with the sprint races and any suggestions to change the current format for the weekend. They oppose any proposal at any price.I remember the FIA playing with the qualifying format a lot in the early 2000’s and they went through several stages including one qualifying round. If they didn’t have the GUTS to do it, we still wouldn’t have the exciting Q1 Q2 Q3 format today, we’d still have two hour sessions, one on Friday and one on Saturday.
I think the FIA/FOM should stop worrying about the fans’ reactions and find a solution that makes the weekends more interesting.They know the current format doesn’t quite work as intended because the original idea was to have a (partial) reverse grid sprint race. They were afraid of the reactions of the fans, the commentators complain, and I think Toto Wolff also tried to prevent that. Now we have a compromise solution that doesn’t add the dan
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