"Moreover, drivers must be allowed to race and push hard. With Pirelli tires, that's not happening." Not true. A. You don't push 100% on a one stopper with softs in Spa
. B. You don't want to destroy your car stay on track and avoid white bits next time, Maldo didn't either.
Another storm in a tea cup with a heavy artillery of safety. Don't even start me with drivers. When gagging order was imposed after Bianchi's crash they were not worried they wouldn't be transported to a hospital on time or forced to race in an unsafe conditions. Dirty corporation's image was at stake, blame the deceases and label it "a freaky accident".
Unexplained Alonso crash, drivers with ignored multiple incidents, a Ferrari with badly attached wheel crashing into other car - nothing, Verstappen Monaco - only Massa talks. Actually Rosberg has a reason to speak and Massa would be consistent but the rest: no. It was a "freaky accident" a team worked for with a strategy and driving. Move on, unless something happens again in normal circumstances of course. Back to racing, hard to dislike Ricciardo when he's straightforward like that (motorsport.com):
“I think we had pace on Perez,” Ricciardo said. “But they are slippery down the straights, and we knew that. "Then we did the undercut, but then we sort of got boxed in with Kimi [Raikkonen], and Perez got me back quite easily down the straight. He did have the option, so I think that tyre was a lot stronger.
"The middle of the stint with the prime we were just circulating, I was struggling a bit on that tyre to be honest. I was hoping to get that option on soon and have a good end of the race, but that was how it ended.” Ricciardo said he would have had a similar race to Kvyat: “We had our sights set on that, we put ourselves in that position at the start."We saw Perez had quite a bit of deg, but we felt on the option we would have been stronger, and I think we were at the start.
"It's easy to say now, but I think we would have genuinely been in the fight with Grosjean there for the last spot on the podium.
F1 can be interesting when better drivers have a half a chance to compete, look at Perez almost overtaking Hamilton at the start. This is what they should focus on for 2017, competitiveness not futuristic gimmicks.
