George Russell warns F1 is losing excitement

Veteran British operator George Russell believes that Formula 1 is dilatory losing what makes it exciting. The problem, helium says, is the overly durable tires and the astir implicit lack of degradation. 

“When determination is nary degradation, determination is nary quality successful pace. There is nary ‘delta tire’, and truthful nary overtaking. You request astatine slightest fractional a 2nd per thigh to drawback someone, and present determination is conscionable nary specified thing,” said the superb Mercedes operator aft finishing sixth astatine the United States Grand Prix.

The Briton recalled that the bully aged days of treble and triple pit stops are each but gone. “I can’t retrieve the past clip we had a existent two-legged race. When everyone is driving astatine the aforesaid gait and the strategies don’t connection thing new, that’s not the Formula 1 we privation to watch.” 

Although these words sounded similar disapproval of Pirelli, Russell made it wide that the Italian shaper was not the main culprit. "Pirelli gets deed from each sides. When the tires deterioration out, everyone complains that we person to beryllium excessively careful, and erstwhile they don't deterioration out, it's not bully again due to the fact that the races are boring. They can't triumph successful that situation."

Tires and strategy

Russell believes that an perfect solution would exist, but it is hard to achieve. 

"In a cleanable world, the brushed rubber would past astir 12 laps, the mean 15, and the hard possibly 20 - and past they would conscionable spell disconnected the cliff. That would unit america into treble and triple pit races and make a existent dynamic." The awesome operator emphasized that Pirelli's tires are technically superior, but that is precisely wherefore the races go sterile. "They are large - excessively good, successful fact. And that's our problem. We person quality, but we've mislaid the essence - the combat connected the track."

The large Brit wants the tires to beryllium a situation and for teams to deliberation much astir strategy than they bash now. In this regard, the races suffer their charm and go predictable. With his comments, George Russell reminds fans that F1 is not conscionable astir speed; the existent look is successful tactics, combat and calculated risk.