System 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has dismissed claims that overtaking has change into extra “synthetic” beneath the sequence’ new rules.
The shortcoming of the brand new energy items to supply sufficient electrical vitality for repeated flying laps has led to repeated adjustments of place between drivers at instances. Whereas some have praised the adjustments to the racing, others have criticised it as “yo-yo racing”.
World champions Max Verstappen and Lando Norris have been among the many most vocal critics. “This isn’t racing, that is yo-yoing,” mentioned Norris after the final race. “I didn’t even wish to overtake Lewis [Hamilton], it’s simply my battery deploys, and I don’t need it to deploy however I can’t management it.”
Nevertheless Domenicali rejected claims the repeated adjustments of place which have change into widespread on this 12 months’s races are “synthetic.”
“Overtaking, some individuals are saying is synthetic,” he mentioned. “What’s synthetic? Overtaking is overtaking.”
Talking to Autosport, Domenicali claimed – with out providing any proof – that the quantity of people that approve of the brand new rules outnumber those that have criticised them: “The dimension is unquestionably within the greatest aspect of the polarisation, being optimistic reasonably [than] the opposite one.”
He argued the various energy ranges delivered by at present’s engines isn’t any totally different to when drivers had direct management over their turbo enhance ranges within the eighties. “Individuals have a brief reminiscence,” mentioned Domenicali, “as a result of on the turbo age – within the eighties, I used to be already following fairly nicely System 1 – the lift-and-coast are utilizing totally different turbo in numerous velocity and it’s a must to save in racing as a result of in any other case the gasoline tank was too small, you couldn’t have the time.”
The FIA is holding its newest technical assembly at present to contemplate enhancements to the rules, significantly within the gentle of Oliver Bearman’s high-speed crash at Suzuka.
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