Mclaren CEO Calls for a Change in the F1 Points System
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McLaren F1 CEO Zak Brown has proposed Formula 1 returns to “the good old days” when the season gets back.
The positive test of a McLaren F1 employee for the coronavirus in front of the Australian Grand Prix in March started F1’s freefall that has since brought about nine Grand Prix either being dropped or delayed.
Brown recommends that on the off chance that the circumstance emerges once more, he would not disrupt the general flow of the nine different groups going racing. He proposes no team should be penalized if they are compelled to pull back from the race weekend.
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Brown accepts to shield teams from such a possibility. He says F1 should bring a standard for this season whereby just a specific number of results count towards the title. Similar to the case from 1950 through to 1990.
Mclaren F1 boss thinks F1 should experiment with its format for a race weekend this year.
Mclaren F1 team principal says F1 should experiment
🗣 "It's like a heavyweight only trying to fight middleweights. These are great teams, they should be prepared to fight everyone on more equal terms."
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F1 supervisors are attempting to sort out another calendar for 2020, with overseeing chief Ross Brawn saying October is the most recent racing can begin to have at least eight races to make it a World Championship season.
However, Brawn says that any progressions to the 2020 calendar will be on the grounds that it is required.
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“Given where we are right now, we need to make some sacrifices,” says CEO Zak Brown. He talks about COVID 19, Budget cap among other things in the latest Sky Sports Vodcast.
“Speaking for McLaren F1, if we were not able to race, I would do exactly what I did in Australia and withdraw the team because you’ve got to put the safety of your people first.
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“But if ultimately Formula 1 and the teams felt comfortable that the issue that we had was contained to just our garage and they felt it was safe to go racing I would not stand in the way.”
The number of races that tallied per season shifted enormously over the four decades of its execution. In 1950, it was four from seven. In 1960, it was 6 from 10. 1970, it was 11 out of 13, 1980, there were 10 from 14. Afterward, in 1990, it was 11 out of 16.
Brown said that groups wouldn’t have the option to simply jump over-enthusiastically. However, there is the full trust that the new schedule would be possible.
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“It won’t be easy. But I think we’re finding right now in life. We’re all doing things that we never thought were doable,” he said.
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