F1 drivers feel progr😼es🌳s has been made following a meeting about racing guidelines at the Qatar Grand Prix.

It emerged at the Mexico City Grand Prix that F1’s governing body the FIA would revise the wording of the sport’s racing guidelines following 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris’s controversial clash at the Unite🍃d States Grand Prix.

The FIA was tar🌠geting implementation of new guidelines as early as this w🍌eekend’s Qatar Grand Prix and a meeting took place in the Lusail paddock on Thursday evening to present the suggestions to the drivers.

Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA) director 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell told media including the discussion ♛was “🔥mainly about overtaking” and insisted “everyone was in agreement”.

The 'inside v outside' debate

Racing guidelines have been at the centre of contentious debate, leading to drivers calling for clarity that the driver on the inside should not be required to leave space on the corner ex♈it - as long as they keep their caꩲr on track. 

This is something many drivers feel Verstappen had been taking advantage of with so-called 'divebomb' defending, where he relies on b🧸eing ahead of his rivals at the apex of corners to deny having ౠto leave space for them at the exit of the corner. 

Russell revealed t🍷hat guideli🍰ne was set to be “binned off”, potentially as early as this weekend.

“It was pretty productive,” Russell said. “I don't want to go into detail what was spoken about. But I think a lot of drivers are aligned that if you are the overtaking car on the inside, rul🐎e number one is you have to be able to stay on the ciꦏrcuit.

“If you're able to stay on the circuit, you are in your right to run the driver wide. As it has been for all of us since go-karts. If you'r🌠e overtaking somebody on the inside, you've✃ got the right to run them wide.

“Right now, there is a line of regulation that says the inside driver needs to leave room to the guy on the🌼 outside from the apex to the ex♔it. I think that's going to be getting binned off. I hope it's going to be from this weekend onwards.”

The ‘best meeting’ F1 drivers have had

Russell’s Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton added changes are “in the works” and believes things are “moving in the right direction” as he praiseꩲd the stewards for being transparent and open with the driver♛s.

“What's great is just acknowledging the FIA and the stewards taking t🦄he♏ time to sit down with us and let you go through it. That's the first time we've actually probably had that meeting in a while at least,” he said.

“That's the best meeting I would say we have had. It's very complex because there's so many different, all these different corners🃏, so many different scenarios. They do💃n't have an easy job at all.

ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ“I think it helps us all sitting with them, having a discussion of what, because in their minds, this year it's been, or it has been better in terms of consistency, but obviously everyone wants it to be perfect.

“But until you have those discussions for them to ful♈ly understand what, from our race, from where we're sitting, from where we're fighting, what we're fighting for and what we think is right or wrong in certain scenarios, it's good for them to h🦹ear and for us to work on real clear guidelines.”

Hamilton revealed the idea of introducing a ‘yellow ca♊rd’ warning system for drivers was quickly rejected.

“There was talk of like a warni♏ng, but that's basically🥀 like yellow card,” he explained.

“You know you're going to have that one warning, and if you waited for the last race of the year ♏to utilise your one warning, that doesn't work. So we're just working away at it togetheꩲr.”

Circuits the "root cause"

Russell said all the drivers were in agreement that circuit design is the “root cause” of most o﷽f F1’s raci🔜ng controversies.

“We also concluded that most of these issues are𓂃 down to the circuits,” he added. “We spoke about a number of issues in Austin. I think a lot of the overtakes wouldn't have ꦡeven been attempted had there been gravel there.

“The circuits are the root cause and t🉐he guidelines are kind of like an interim fix that we need to agree on until we can get all of the circuits in a proper manner.”

Newly crowned four-tim🍃e world champion Verstappen said: “You know, in some places you just have a lot of run off, and that creates already a lot of issues, so that's something that we have to work on for the future anyway.

“The main problem is the track that allows these kind of things. So if you have gravel, that naturally stops you fr𝓀om doing things that, you know, taking a ♉bit more risk than normal.”

While Verstappen reiterated his stance that F1’s ꧅rulebook should be simpler, he feels circuit alterations are ultimately the ꦿbest solution.

“Sometimes it's n🐽ot that easy to ju꧂st throw all the rules overboard,” he said.

“I think the biggest issue that we have is just, in some places, the t🌃racks that have way too much run-off.

“Of course, some tracks are a bit more dಞiffi🦄cult than others, but how much do you want F1 to drive on your track then? It's as simple as that.”