F1 🍒drivers feel pꦑrogress has been made following a meeting about racing guidelines at the Qatar Grand Prix.

It emerged at the Mexico City Grand Prix that F1’s governing body the FIA would revise the wording of the sport’s racing guidelines following 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris’s controversi𒅌al clash at 🐟the United States Grand Prix.

The FIA was targeting implementation of new guidelines as early as this weekend’s Qatar Grand Prix and a meeting took place in the Lusail paddock on Thursday evening to present the suggest⭕ions to the drivers.

Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA) director 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell told media including the discussioဣn was “mainly about overtaking” and 🧔insisted “everyone was in agreement”.

The 'inside v outside' debate

Racing guidelines have been at th♒e centre of contentious debate, leading to drivers calling for cl🐎arity that the driver on the inside should not be required to leave space on the corner exit - as long as they keep their car on track. 

This is something many drivers feel Verstappen had been taking advantage of with so-called 'divebomb' defending, where he relies on be𓃲ing ahead of his rivals at the apex of corners to deny having to leave space for them🙈 at the exit of the corner. 

Russell revealed that guideline was set to be “bi❀n🎶ned off”, potentially as early as this weekend.

“It was pretty productive,” Russell said. “I don't want to go into detail what was spoken about. But I think a lot ⛄of drivers are aligned that if you are the overtaking car on the inside, rule number one is you have to be able to stay on the circuit.

“If you're able to stay on the circuit, you are in your right to run the driver 🍌wide. As it has been for all of us since go-karts. If you're overtaking somebody on the inside, you've got the right t💟o run them wide.

“Right now, there is a line of regulation that says the inside driver needs to leave room to the guy on the outside from the apex to the exit. I think tha💝t's going to be getting binned off. I hope it's going to be from this weekend onwards.”

The ‘best meeting’ F1 drivers have had

Russell’s Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton added changes are “in the works” and believes things are “moving in the right direction” as he praised the stewards for being transparent and open w🔯ith the 📖drivers.

“What's great is just acknowledging the FIA and the stewards taking the time to sit down with us and let you go through it. That𝓰's the f💮irst time we've actually probably had that meeting in a while at least,” he said.

“That'♐s the best meeting I would say we have had. It's very complex because there's so many different, all these different corners, so many different scenarios. They don't have an easy job at all.

“I think it helps us all sitting with tཧhem, having a discussion of what, because in their minds, this year it's been, or it has been better in terms of consistency, but obviously everyone wants it to be perfect.

“But until you have those discussions for them to fully under꧒stand what, from our race, from where we're sitting, from where we're fighting, what we're fighting for and what we think is right or wrong in certain scenarios, it's good for them to hear and for us to work on real clear guidelines.”

Hamilton revea🅘led the idea of introducing a ‘yellow card’ warning system for drivers was quickly 🔯rejected.

“There was talk of like a warning, but that's basical🌟ly like yellow card,🌠” he explained.

“You know you're going to have that one warning, and if you waited for the last race of the year to utilise your one warning, that doesn't work. So we're 🅘just working away at it together.”

Circuits the "root cause"

Russell said all the drivers were in agreement that circuit design is the “root💜 cause” of most of F1’s racing controversies.

“We also concluded that most of these issues are down to the circuits,” he added. “We spoke about a number of issues in Austin. I thiಞnk a lot of the overtakes wouldn't have even been attempt🦩ed had there been gravel there.

“The circuits are the root cause and the guidelines are kind of like an🎃 interim fix that we need to agree on until we can get all of the circuits in a proper man💞ner.”

Newly crowned four-time world champion Verstappen said: “You know, in some places you just have a lot of run off, and that creates already a lot of is𝓡sues, so that's something that we have to work on for the future anyway.

“The main problem is the track that allows these kind of things. So if you have gravel, that naturally stops yꦓou from doing things that, you know, taking a bit more risk than normal.”

While Verstappen reiterated his stanc🐟e that F1’s rulebook should be simpler, he feels circuit alterations are ultimately the best solution.

“Sometimes itꦍ's not that easy to just throw all the rul༺es overboard,” he said.

“I think the biggest issue that we have is just, in some places, the tracks⛦ that have way too mu𒆙ch run-off.

“Of course, some tracks are a bit more difficult than others, but how much do you want F1 to drive on your track then? It's as simpඣle as tha♊t.”