In Singapore, when Lando Norris apparently keeping the points awarded to the driver who does the fastest lap (provided he finishes in the top 10), Daniel Ricciardo He stopped in the pits to come out with fresh rubber on the last lap of the race and, now without fuel, set the fastest lap without breaking a sweat. This meant that Daniel, who had nothing at stake because he was outside the Top-10, prevented Lando Norris from scoring a point that could have helped him fight for the title against Max. Verstappen.
That move caused a lot of criticism and controversy.
Ricciardo and the team said that RB allowed him to stop in the pits so that he could end his F1 career (he was dropped from the car after that GP) by riding the limit, marking the fastest lap of career. But Andrea Stella, McLaren’s Team Principal, doesn’t think so and doesn’t believe in those kinds of rewards.
Ricciardo was driving for the RB team, that is, Red Bull’s ‘B’ team, so Andrea indicated that RB wanted to help Verstappen, the Red Bull driver, take a point from in a Lando that left Singapore at 52 Max
Therefore, A month later, when F1 returned to Austin, the FIA made a decisive decision with a drastic change in the scoring system: in 2025 the point awarded for the fastest race lap will be removed.
With 24 races on the calendar, a driver who consistently finishes in the Top-10 and completes the fastest lap in all races can claim a total of 24 additional points for it, one in each race. But by 2025, those 24 points will no longer be available.
F1 introduced the point for fastest lap in 2019 with the aim of adding more emotion and a award for the fastest driver in the race. But over time it has been seen that, in most cases, That point was achieved by one who had a huge cushion at the end of a race with respect to his pursuer allowing him to enter the pits.put on new rubber in the final turns and do that fast lap with ease.
What were the pilots thinking?
The drivers present at the first part of the FIA’s official press conference this Thursday at the United States GP agreed with the decision made by the FIA, among them, Carlos Sainz.
“I’ve always thought it was an unnecessary point in the F1 scoring system. Mainly because of how it was achieved. At the moment that point goes to whoever has a free stop a lap from the end of the race. So it doesn’t really show who is the fastest in the race and the faster deserves the point, but rather it is a point that goes where, due to the situation of the race, or chance or luck, there is an easy and free stop at a point at the end of the race. “Not always, but it happens a lot.”he explained Carlos Sainz.
“Is it possible to give a point for pole position? I agree that pole is something that is given a lot of value in F1 and a lot of value is given to it by the media and to us as drivers because you want to be the fastest and show that we have done the cleanest lap, that You have more took a risk, and you did it to get that post. And getting a point for that on a compressed grill is fine. But it doesn’t make sense to give a dominant car points for it. But yes, I would give one point to the guy going for the fast lap which gives him the pole and it would make more sense.he added.
“For us, being on pole is something very important. We put a lot of effort and it’s something that pays off. During the race you don’t always fight to be the fastest in a lap. I don’t always think that giving of one point there is the solution and “It makes more sense to give one point for the pole,” he said. Esteban Ocon.
“It is not usually in our (Haas drivers’) minds in the middle zone. If you enter the top 10 it is rare that you have such a difference (to the chasing car) to get in and change a tire. For us it has never been this. related” , argument Magnussen.
Source: La Verdad
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