The race weekend in Brazil concluded F1’s bigger providing of dash races over the 2023 season, having expanded from three to 6 for this 12 months.
This got here amid a change the place the dash would now not have an effect on the complete grand prix’s qualifying order, with Saturday performing as a standalone day for the dash qualifying and race occasions.
Nonetheless, reception among the many drivers stays significantly tepid, with Max Verstappen vocal about his need for F1 to desert the dash experiment and revert to a “regular race weekend”.
This adopted a dash encounter in Brazil which had moments of intrigue past the highest three amid races for place as tyre degradation started to chew, however might be perceived to have been much less profitable in comparison with its 2021 and 2022 choices.
A shuffle within the order of periods is anticipated for 2024, with dash qualifying set to be moved to Fridays, however Perez has steered that the FIA ought to tinker additional with the format and acknowledged that he would now advocate for a reversed-grid dash race.
“I believe in the event that they wish to preserve this format of the dash races, we have to vary it,” Perez replied in response to a query from Motorsport.com about their desired dash weekend tweaks.
“I’d suggest a reverse grid, one thing that may make it extra attention-grabbing for the followers as a result of I do not suppose it is doing what we wish to obtain.
“Nothing actually occurs on this form of race. I believe [a reversed grid] will combine up issues and create extra alternatives, much more overtaking.
“If we wish to preserve this format, [we should] give it a go on one thing fairly completely different, as a result of I believe for the final two years this form of occasion hasn’t introduced a number of good racing.”
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Sergio Perez, Purple Bull Racing RB19, George Russell, Mercedes F1 W14, Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W14, firstly
One criticism among the many drivers after the Sao Paulo dash was that the excessive degradation ranges seen within the smooth tyre compelled them into tyre administration from the early levels of the 24-lap race.
Though this made the race not significantly satisfying for these drivers, Lando Norris countered that if everybody had tyres that might be pushed on for the entire race, the race would have been even much less eventful.
“You continue to push to the restrict you’ve; after all, you are not pushing prefer it’s qualifying, however I do not suppose we ever have in F1,” Norris reckoned.
“However you continue to noticed good racing, apparently, from everybody behind. If everyone seems to be pushing flat out, I’d say you virtually in all probability see much less overtakes than what you’d right now. In that sense, you are in all probability asking for a extra boring race, which isn’t what you need.
“I believe what we had right now is hard, and perhaps not essentially the most satisfying; you do not really feel such as you’re pushing that a lot, however, um, you are still driving on the restrict of the grip you have bought and all of these issues.
“It is nonetheless a problem for us behind the wheel, I believe it is thrilling for the individuals who get it proper and individuals who do not get it proper. However in the event you’ve bought no degradation in any respect, then I would in all probability say you are not going to have one overtake for the entire race.”
