Components 1 drivers urged the operators of the Interlagos circuit to enhance the brand new floor they laid forward of this yr’s occasion.
The 4.3-kilometre circuit was absolutely re-laid forward of final weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix. Nevertheless the brand new floor was so bumpy in locations that components of the monitor turned undriveable, stated race winner Max Verstappen.
“It was nonetheless very unhealthy,” stated the Purple Bull driver. “In some locations you possibly can not even drive since you would backside out fairly closely, even within the moist.
“So positively one thing must be finished for subsequent yr to make it higher.”
Throughout Sunday’s rain-hit race Verstappen advised his group he didn’t need to threat driving off-line to chill his tyres due to the bumps.
“I do know lots of people put loads of effort in it, it’s to not speak unhealthy concerning the individuals, I do know they all the time attempt to do one of the best they’ll to place the floor down, however for the automobiles that we’re operating at the moment, it’s positively too bumpy,” he added. “One thing must be finished about it.”
Esteban Ocon, who completed second, stated the brand new floor was higher in a single respect. “I feel the grip is definitely excellent,” stated the Alpine driver.
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“It’s just a few bumps that we run with these automobiles – in all probability if we have been again in 2021 or 2020, it will have been superb – however these automobiles run super-low and all of the hit is mainly straight into the chassis, so there’s no suspension in there. It’s significantly better than it was when it comes to grip, however simply the bumps must be improved.”
Dash race winner Lando Norris agreed the character of present F1 automobiles makes them extra delicate to bumps and believes tracks should change to swimsuit them.
“I don’t know the way the tracks are made precisely however in how the automobiles are pressured to be made these days each driver on the grid has complained,” he stated. “The automobiles we had a couple of years in the past, you possibly can get away with extra of these items and also you seen it quite a bit much less.
“The automobiles are made to be low. That’s the regulation. The groups must make them like that and due to this fact, different issues have to vary round it. A type of issues is the tracks, as a result of the way it was [in practice] particularly, made issues fairly tough for everybody.”
“The FIA know and so they’re not proud of it both,” he added. “I do know that they need to enhance issues for the long run, and so they work with us to attempt to try this.”
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