Penalties and rules
Even over the last weekend at You love me There was no shortage of criticism towards the Race Direction for some penalty inflicted on pilots withheld unfair or excessive. This topic has been at the center of attention for some time, together with rules which are often of difficult interpretation for teams and drivers. An aspect that neither the participants nor the public like, but the last person to express his disappointment on the issue was none other than a former steward: Joaquin Verdegay.
The desire to run is reduced
After a long career in F1 in this role, the Spaniard spoke on the podcast In Diarytaking up Fernando Alonso’s statement released in Miami, in which the two-time world champion (after the penalties suffered in Australia and China) had explained how any sanctions against Lewis Hamilton would not come as “not Spanish”. This followed the aggressive maneuver of the Briton at the start of the Sprint race which had generated contact between Alonso and Stroll: “It doesn’t seem to me that there is any persecution against the Spaniards – explained Verdegay from his point of view – what is there is if anything a lack of control and a loss of direction that worries and saddens me. Why did they stop running in the rain? And now there are these absurd races behind a safety car. But where are we? I feel like we’re ruining this sport. I don’t think anyone enjoys running now“.
A party
Furthermore, in his personal opinion, Verdegay shared the Spaniard’s criticisms relating to the difficulty in understanding the regulations: “Of course your complaints are legitimate – he continued – regulations can be difficult to interpret, but he doesn’t want everything that happens to be sanctioned. I wouldn’t have given a penalty to Alonso in China and I wouldn’t have given a penalty to Hamilton in Miami. The races are more meant to be a party than a sporting spectacleone gets the impression that the Miami Grand Prix is an event organized to sell trays of nachos“.
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