Vettel calls for traditional F1 chequered flag after Suzuka error
Sebastian Vettel believes Formula 1 should use a traᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚditional chequered flag rather than an electronic system to avoid a repeat of the error that occurred during the Japanese Grand Prix.
A system glitch resulted in Sunday’s race at Suzuka being called a lap earlier than the scheduled 53 laps, resulting in confusion for teams and drivers alike. The FIA has subsequently 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:launched an investigation into what went wrong.
Sebastian Vettel believes Formula 1 should use a traditional chequered flag rather than an electronic system to avoid a repeat of the error that occurr👍ed during the Japanese Grand Prix.
A system glitch resulted in Sunday’s race at Suzuka being called a lap earlier than the scheduled 53 laps, resulting in confusion for teams and drivers alike. The FIA has subsequently 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:launched an investigation into what went wrong.
F1 does wave a chequered flag at the end of grands prix alongside its light panel🎐 system, but Vettel said he had struggled to spot the electronic version in Japan.
“I think from a driver’s point of view it’s very💫 clear that there was no chequered flag,” he exp♍lained.
“We have a pit board giving us the🥃 race information on the laps, we can see on the dashboard as well how many laps are still to go. I still saw there was a lap to go, and I got the call by radi🅘o that it is the last lap.
“Obviously there was a confusion at the pit wall because I think it was more the timing that set the chequered flag, not the actual ch൩equered flag on the track.”
The electronic flag system was introduced after confusion at last year’s Canadian Gra�🎃�nd Prix, where the chequered flag was waved too soon by model Winnie Harlow.
“We had an issue in Canada one year where the chequered flag came too early and now as I understand it the timing is more is the dec▨isive one,” Vettel said.
“Whereas I think it should still be the chequered flag as well. So if you get one of the two wrong, it doesn’t ma𝔉tter which one. I think for us drivers it matters that if we see the chequered flag the race shouldn’t continue.
“I don’t know what happened, obviousꩲly someone was a bit eager and went a bit early. So I wasn’t the only one today that was eager and pushed and went a bit early.”
Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto added: “I think when you’ve got the chequered flag, we told the drivers to continue pushing, they were pushing and it didn’t affect at least what we 💯were doing.
“Something to r🎉eview on the sporting side with the FIA on how to improve in the future.”
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