Lewis Hamilton he was the real protagonist of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, held last weekend in Brazil at the Interlagos circuit. The Mercedes champion won the race on Sunday after having recovered from the tenth position on the starting grid and after having also recovered in the ‘short race’ on Saturday from 20th to fifth. The relegation of the # 44 to last position at the start of the Sprint Qualifying was decided by the commissioners, who had punished a technical irregularity of the Brackley team linked to the opening of the DRS. However, the spectacular series of overtaking staged by Hamilton during the Paulista weekend also brought the controversial issue of inverted grid.
Boycotted in recent years in every way by the Mercedes team principal himself, Toto Wolff, the inversion of the starting grid for the sprint race is something that has always been supported by Ferrari’s number one. Mattia Binotto. It is no coincidence that the Maranello manager also took advantage of the Hamilton show in Sao Paulo to try to bring this topic back to the center of the debate related to the new formats to be tested for the next few years. “What happens are a lot of overtaking and a lot of fun “Binotto said, as reported by the site RaceFans.
“So I think we should really consider it [la griglia invertita], obviously for the format of the sprint race. Having seen what happened, I think it is no longer even debatable “Binotto added. This year there have been three Sprint Qualifiers during the season. Next year they will rise to six, they will probably award more points and their starting grid could be ‘free’ compared to Friday’s qualifying. This instead would return, as usual, to assign the pole position of the GP. However, a recent poll commissioned by F1 showed that 68% of fans would be against the reverse grid.
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