Interlagos must fix “very bad” new track surface for 2025

November 8, 2024

in Racing

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Components 1 drivers urged the operators of the Interlagos circuit to enhance the brand new floor they laid forward of this yr’s occasion.

The 4.3-kilometre circuit was absolutely re-laid forward of final weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix. Nonetheless the brand new floor was so bumpy in locations that components of the observe turned undriveable, mentioned race winner Max Verstappen.

“It was nonetheless very unhealthy,” mentioned the Crimson Bull driver. “In some locations you could possibly not even drive since you would backside out fairly closely, even within the moist.

“So positively one thing must be executed for subsequent yr to make it higher.”

Throughout Sunday’s rain-hit race Verstappen informed his group he didn’t wish to danger driving off-line to chill his tyres due to the bumps.

“I do know lots of people put a number of effort in it, it’s to not discuss unhealthy concerning the individuals, I do know they all the time attempt to do the perfect they’ll to place the floor down, however for the vehicles that we’re operating at present, it’s positively too bumpy,” he added. “One thing must be executed about it.”

Esteban Ocon, who completed second, mentioned the brand new floor was higher in a single respect. “I believe the grip is definitely excellent,” mentioned the Alpine driver.

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“It’s just a few bumps that we run with these vehicles – in all probability if we have been again in 2021 or 2020, it will have been high quality – however these vehicles run super-low and all of the hit is principally straight into the chassis, so there’s no suspension in there. It’s a lot better than it was by way of grip, however simply the bumps must be improved.”

Dash race winner Lando Norris agreed the character of present F1 vehicles makes them extra delicate to bumps and believes tracks should change to swimsuit them.

“I don’t understand how the tracks are made precisely however in how the vehicles are compelled to be made these days each driver on the grid has complained,” he mentioned. “The vehicles we had a couple of years in the past, you could possibly get away with extra of these items and also you seen it so much much less.

“The vehicles are made to be low. That’s the regulation. The groups should make them like that and subsequently, different issues have to alter round it. A kind of issues is the tracks, as a result of the way it was [in practice] particularly, made issues fairly tough for everybody.”

“The FIA know they usually’re not pleased with it both,” he added. “I do know that they wish to enhance issues for the long run, they usually work with us to try to do this.”