Team bosses reject blanket restart rule
F1 team bosses have played down calls for automatic red flags or NASCAR-style restarts after the British Grand Prix ended behind the safety car following Max Verstappen’s crash, saying such decisions should be left to race control. Racing Bulls boss Alan Permane said: “Honestly, I’d leave the management of the races to the race director and the FIA,” adding that “they already have that power”. Audi racing director Allan McNish agreed that nobody “ideally wants a race to finish behind a Safety Car”, but warned: “you can’t put a blanket ruling into there”.
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Norris on overtaking concerns after Belgian GP grid penalty
Lando Norris says McLaren will have to “wait and see” how overtaking plays out at the Belgian Grand Prix as he looks to limit the damage from a 10-place grid penalty after the team changed the power electronic unit. Norris said: "We will have to wait and see how the overtaking is. Most people would deploy basically the whole battery to Turn 5, and you would go from pretty much 100 percent battery to zero, so there is not much use for the battery, so we have to wait and see. We probably have a small straight-line speed advantage compared to the people a little further back, so we should have a good chance. But just to overtake in general, I think it could be pretty difficult here."
Lando Norris issues ‘wait and see' perspective on Spa grid penalty recovery
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Norris on Red Bull and McLaren Belgian GP qualifying pace
Lando Norris says Red Bull will be “just as quick, if not quicker” than McLaren in Belgian Grand Prix qualifying. Norris said: "Red Bull normally just don't turn up on Friday, so we'll get to tomorrow [Saturday], and they'll be just as quick, if not quicker. So let's just wait and see. I think we probably turned up [our engine] with Mercedes, and the rest of them didn't. So I think we're still probably, at the minute, the fourth-fastest."
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Antonelli on bad luck affecting Mercedes team-mates
Kimi Antonelli says both he and Mercedes team-mate George Russell have suffered bad luck this season, after being asked whether their 25-point gap is a fair reflection of the year so far. Antonelli said: "I have to say both of us had bad luck. One of us had it in more critical moments at times, but as I said, it's the way it is. This is how motorsport goes, and we all know that. We could see ourselves how this can shift very quickly."
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Stroll on Aston Martin's aerodynamic stalling problem
Lance Stroll says Aston Martin’s AMR26 is suffering aerodynamic stalling that leaves him “completely” washing out in high-speed corners, after a viral video showed him taking Silverstone’s Copse and Maggots-Becketts with extreme steering lock. Stroll said: "We have entry instability in braking and medium-low speed, and then we have this kind of aero stalling — that kind of front-of-floor, front-wing stalling — where we just completely wash out in high-speed corners. So, a few limitations."
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Verstappen on Belgian GP practice gearshift problems
Max Verstappen said his angry radio message about “unacceptable” gear shifts in FP2 at the Belgian Grand Prix was down to him being “very sensitive” to such issues. Verstappen said: "I'm always very sensitive to these things because I want to work on that and improve it. I think there was a software upgrade, or downgrade, that it took a bit of time for the shifts to learn basically, and then it got a bit better again at the end. Some bits were working well, and other times it wasn't working, but overall the car has been in a decent window."
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Bortoleto on avoiding red flags for late-race restarts
Audi driver Gabriel Bortoleto said the FIA should avoid knee-jerk changes after the British Grand Prix finished behind the safety car, arguing red flags should be reserved for serious incidents rather than used to manufacture late-race restarts. Bortoleto said: "No, I think it's important that a red flag is when a big accident happens. We don't need to focus only on the entertainment to finish the race. But if it's a small accident like what happened to Max, where he didn't even crash, he just went to the gravel, I don't see a reason why we need a red flag there, just to try to make three more laps in the race... Because as soon as we start to do this type of thing, things get mixed up, and then other problems are created."
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Norris on Mercedes-powered cars in Belgian GP FP2
Lando Norris said Mercedes-powered cars may have been running higher power unit settings in second practice at the Belgian Grand Prix after he finished second in FP2 behind Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli at Spa-Francorchamps. Norris said: "We've not really changed anything this weekend, so there's no reason for us to expect anything different. Red Bull normally just don't turn up [engine power] on Friday, so we're going to get to tomorrow and that'll be just as quick, if not quicker. So, let's just wait and see. I think we probably turned up with the Mercedes and the rest of them didn't. So, I think we're still probably fourth fastest."
Norris reckons Mercedes used higher power mode in Spa FP2
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