Drivers’ problems around Formulation 1’s dash structure are not likely to variable in any upcoming improvements to it, suggests Lando Norris.

The collection held its closing dash race of the 2023 year at Interlagos currently. But the prime a few finishers, who were being divided by thirteen.six seconds soon after the 24-lap race, experienced tiny optimistic to say about the hottest dash celebration.

Amid studies the dash race structure will be adjusted once again for the 2024 F1 year, today’s winner Max Verstappen reiterated his overall dislike of the structure.

“Just a standard race weekend, remember to, thank you,” he explained. “I’m not intrigued in any modify. I never like it.”

Even so Norris, who echoed Verstappen’s desire for the standard race weekend structure previously this weekend, explained the drivers’ thoughts about it will make no variance to what F1 decides to do following yr.

“It does not issue what we say,” the McLaren driver discussed. “Our options hardly ever have significantly impact with something, particularly with this. Anything would seem dictated by staff bosses and what they want to do and what they pick to do.”

Though the structure has been billed by F1 as an possibility for motorists to thrust flat-out from begin to end with no owning to choose technique into thought, Verstappen explained he experienced to again off to glance soon after his tyres on every single lap of today’s race.

Even so Norris questioned no matter whether the races would be enhanced by encouraging motorists to go flat-out all over.

“I consider if everybody is pushing flat-out, I would say you’d practically possibly see much less overtakes than what you would currently. So in that perception, you are merely inquiring for a a lot more uninteresting race, which is not what you want.

“So I consider what we experienced currently is challenging and possibly not the most pleasing, you never really feel like you are pushing that significantly, but you are however driving on the restrict of the grip you have obtained and all of those people factors. It is however a obstacle for us at the rear of the wheel. I consider it is remarkable for the persons who get it suitable and persons who never get it suitable.

“But if you have obtained no degradation at all then I’d possibly say you are not heading to have one particular overtake for the total race.”

Sergio Perez also thinks the structure has not been a good results in its present guise. He thinks introducing reverse grid races, which F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has regularly known as for, is truly worth thinking of.

“If they want to maintain this structure of dash races, we have obtained to modify it,” he explained. “I would suggest a reverse grid, a thing like that, to make it a lot more intriguing for the supporters.

“Because I never consider it is functioning, what we want to reach. Absolutely nothing seriously transpires in these kind of races.”

Reverse grid races would “mix up factors and produce a lot more possibilities, a ton a lot more overtaking,” explained Perez. “If we want to maintain this structure, give it a go on a thing really unique. Since I consider for the final two many years, this kind of celebration has not introduced a ton of fantastic racing.”

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