The F1 drivers paid tribute to Senna and Ratzenberger
This 12 months marks 30 years since Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna tragically misplaced their lives at Imola, in what stays to today the darkest Method 1 weekend in trendy instances.
To mark this, four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel gathered immediately’s F1 drivers on Thursday to recollect and pay tribute to Ratzenberger and Senna.
Collectively they ran a lap across the monitor stopping on the websites of the 2 deadly crashes, sporting yellow t-shirts impressed by Senna’s iconic helmet and wristbands to pay tribute to Ratzenberger.
The one drivers not sporting the tribute jersey have been Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen. Bottas was as a substitute sporting biking gear and Verstappen was sporting a Purple Bull shirt. Nonetheless, the reigning world champion was one of many few to put on a pin to pay tribute to Ratzenberger, who’s in any other case typically neglected when the F1 weekend at Imola 1994 comes up.
Verstappen can run double races this weekend
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Max Verstappen isn’t content material with driving an F1 race this weekend.
The reigning world champion has introduced swimming gear to Imola in order that he may also participate within the digital swimming race over 24 hours on the Nürburgring.
– It’s not a collision. An endurance race is run by a number of individuals collectively, proper? says Verstappen to ESPN.
The Dutchman is signed as much as compete for the Redline staff, however he’s clear that nothing is written in stone.
– We’ll see what occurs. The F1 race is in fact the precedence, but when I get a little bit of time, who is aware of what can occur?
Appearing after the criticism towards Magnussen
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Kevin Magnussen sparked a lot debate on the weekend in Miami, after he incurred a number of time penalties resulting from his aggressive driving fashion in an try and preserve Lewis Hamilton behind him within the dash race.
The time penalty ruined the Dane’s race, however led to teammate Nico Hülkenberg with the ability to rating vital factors for Haas.
McLaren’s staff boss referred to as Magnussen’s driving “unacceptable” and mentioned he deserved to be disqualified.
Now states motorsport.com that the FIA is contemplating introducing more durable penalties to stop one thing like this from taking place once more. As an alternative of a 10-second time penalty, they need to have the ability to problem a drive via penalty, which in flip would imply that the driving force is pressured into the pit and thus unable to dam anybody else.
The location states that the federation, the groups and the race leaders mentioned the problem on Friday.
