F1, the FIA and Pirelli a⭕re pushing to outlaw tyre warming equipment to help reduce costs and meet the world championship’s aim to be net zero carbon by 2030. 

But seven-time world cham🔯pion Hamilton, who is among the drivers to have tested the 𓂃2024 slick tyres, has raised fears about safety concerns. 

“I think it’s dangerous,” Ha꧂milton said duri🅰ng F1 pre-season testing in Bahrain. 

“I’ve t💜ested the no blankets, and there is going to be an incident at some stage. So, I think it is 💟the wrong decision.  

“You have to drive multiple laps to get the tyres to work. The whole argument is that🔜 taking away th😼e blankets is going more sustainable and more green, but in actual fact we just burn more fuel to get the temperature into the tyres.  

“The more concern is when you go out: you ar🔥e skating around and it is very twitchy. If som❀eone else is on tyres that are working, you can easily collide with them. So, it is a pointless exercise.” 

Hamilton💎 is not the only driver to have questioned the plan💫. 

Ferrari’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz said: “I still don’t understand why F1 are moving away from blankets, because for m🍒e it makes no sense. 

“You are burning more fuel, more tyres. Even on sustainability, I just don’t understand tꦇhe philosophy. Also there are ris♏ks with these lower ride height cars.

“But it is a ♉direction that F1, the FIA and Pirelli have decided to take, so ꦉwe need to adapt I guess.”

The sport’s major players are set to hold a crunch vote on whether the proposa𝔍l should🎃 go ahead or not after this year’s British Grand Prix in July. 

Responding to Hamilton’s concerns, Pirelli boss Mario Isola stressed: “Lewis tes🅠ted the tyres in Paul Ricard at the beginning of February. 

“It was quite cold in that period and clearly we tested some tyres that are not the fin🍨al versi💖on of the tyres that we want to homologate without blankets.

“The idea to remove blankets is somethin♚g that we dis🔴cussed years ago and it is a common thought between the FIA, F1, teams, Pirelli and promoters to achieve carbon neutrality for 2030.

“Any step to make our sport more sustainable is important and one of these steps is to remove blankets, to avoid 𒅌using electricity💯 to warm up the tyre before we use it.

“We tested before the Christmas break some wet weather tires, that was also our priority because last year, drivers were not happy about where they were on tyres. We found a new compound that is abꦛle to work without blankets🐻.

“We made 🌸a comparison with the old tyre with blankets in cold conditions and in all the three different circuits with three different teams and, if I’m n🌳ot wrong, the five different drivers, the comments were positive.”