Pierre Gasly has welcomed the changes to the F1 sprint format, allowing his team’s “geniuses” to work on setting up their cars throughout the race week. Last year, the cars were placed in parc fermé after FP1, so teams were limited to their choices after FP1 for qualifying, shootouts, sprints and Grand Prix.
This meant that an uncompetitive car could not be improved by fine-tuning the set-up, and problems such as the plank wear that disqualified Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc after the American Grand Prix also occurred. The new format will see FP1 followed by a shootout and sprint in the first parc fermé, after which teams will use the knowledge gained to make changes to their cars before entering a second parc fermé covering qualifying and the final. Get an opportunity. Details of how this new format will work were discussed at Friday’s Sports Advisory Committee meeting. “I think it’s great,” Gasly said of the changes to the F1 sprint. “That’s definitely been missing. Last year, all these wonderful, wonderful, genius people were not allowed to touch our cars on a Friday afternoon. “They get paid to do that. “And that’s a bit of a shame because that’s also why they’re the best, because they can do so much more than just a click or two of front flaps and tire pressure.” “F1 is about engineering. I think it’s great that it’s the pinnacle and it gives us the opportunity to constantly improve throughout the weekend.” Gasly previously felt frustrated that his engineers knew they could improve the car but couldn’t. I admitted that. “That’s right. We had time to try things out. An hour of practice is very limiting, so we always tried it in the simulator,” Gasly said. “When you realize that you didn’t start the weekend with the best set-up, you have a very small window to react. So I think it was definitely the right change for the sport,” said Gasly’s teammate Esteban. Ocon agreed that the new format is beneficial. “It would be good to have a sprint shootout and then close parc fermé and have a sprint race and then restart before qualifying,” Ocon said. “I think we should do that. It will make the weekend more interesting and there will be fewer stupid mistakes like plank wear.”
2024-02-12 12:38:11
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