Hoping for Formula 1 future of the union is to make the leap between the top and midterfeltet less. Why Kevin Magnussen does not understand the decision to introduce an extra point for the running with the race’s fastest lap.
– I think it is too bad that there are shared points out, as we are not going to be able to get. It is a little unnecessary, he says to Ekstra Bladet.
– It is just a random point, which is shared out in my opinion.
Last year the performance of Magnussen actually Haas-the team’s first and only fastest lap. It was in Singapore at the very end of the race after an extra pit-stop. A similar game would not trigger a point in the year. For the driver must be in the top ten to get it.
– It is for topteams! For midterfeltet it does not change anything, ” notes Romain Grosjean.
Before a midterhold should have the chance to run the race fastest lap, it will require an additional pitstop. And it is hard to imagine a situation where a team like Renault, Alfa Romeo or Haas have 25-30 extra seconds to do with.
In Australia had Charles Leclerc really customize the margin down to Kevin Magnussen to grab a free pit-stop at the end and give it a shot. Ferrari failed to do so, according to team boss Mattia Binotto, because there is always a risk by stopping; just think of the Haas and …
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the Question is then also whether the Ferrari in Melbourne could have beaten Valtteri Bottas’ time. Atypical ended up the victorious finn namely, to snatch ekstrapointet.
Against the team chief Toto Wolffs vertical order.
He had forbidden them both to run after it, if they were one, two, or three. The risk is too great compared to what you can lose.
They ignored me. All together, said the Mercedes boss at his briefing after the race.
– I think it was a cunning plan between the drivers and the engineers, for the engineers were keen to go for it. I have to listen the radio through and find out what happened.
– But in the end I am happy for the extra points, he says.
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