speaking to the F1 Show podcast<\/a>, said the lack of driver control \u201cworried\u201d him.<\/p>\n\u201cThere\u2019s a regulation in Formula 1. It\u2019s been around forever. It\u2019s very simple and far-reaching. The driver must drive the car alone and unaided,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe driver shouldn\u2019t have any surprises by a self-learning car. They\u2019ve got to get rid of that. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s not the work of the moment, but the power delivery must be proportional to what the driver is doing with the throttle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a fundamental. It has to be linear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the importance of the issue, Brundle doubted it could be fixed in the near term.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a big issue for the FIA,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will now have to do something and listen to the drivers.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we\u2019re hamstrung. We\u2019ve got a motor that churns out three times its electrical power compared to last year, and the battery depletes in any given decent straight.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re painted into a corner. We\u2019re between a rock and a hard place on this because the hardware is just not up to it. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fundamentally flawed, but I think they should be able to smooth some of these elements.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sport is preparing for crunch meetings this Thursday to agree on possible rule changes for this year and 2027.<\/p>\n
Bearman Japan crash sparks heated debate | 08:19<\/p>\n
AUDI WON\u2019T DIRECTLY REPLACE FORMER TEAM PRINCIPAL<\/p>\n
Audi chief Mattia Binotto says his team is unlikely to settle on a like-for-like replacement for Jonathan Wheatley after the former team principal left his role suddenly last month.<\/p>\n
Wheatley had been poached from Red Bull Racing, where he had been its long-time sporting director, to become Sauber\u2019s team principal last year and Audi\u2019s inaugural boss when the Swiss squad rebranded this season.<\/p>\n
But Audi unexpectedly announced the Englishman had left the team just two rounds into the campaign, citing personal reasons. His exit followed reports he was talking to Aston Martin about replacing Adrian Newey as team principal.<\/p>\n
Wheatley had been operating as one half of a two-person leadership structure at Audi alongside Binotto, whose title is \u2018head of Audi F1 project\u2019.<\/p>\n
Binotto, a former Ferrari principal, took over Wheatley\u2019s responsibilities in Japan as the team sought a replacement, but he subsequently revealed that Audi intended to make the role a more junior position.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the future, I think we are not looking for a new team principal,\u201d he said, per Autosport.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will keep the role, but I will need someone to support me at the race weekends because I will not be always at the race weekend myself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need to focus most at the factory where there is the most to transform, I would say \u2014 not only to develop [but] to transform \u2014 so certainly a support at the race weekend is required.\u201d<\/p>\n
Binotto\u2019s answer hints at a possible cause for Wheatley\u2019s unexpected departure \u2014 that his role wasn\u2019t as senior or imbued with as much power as he had anticipated.<\/p>\n
With Binotto at the helm, the team principal role is being sold as something more akin to a trackside manager or perhaps even simply a representative of the senior leadership.<\/p>\n
Wheatley had been known to have coveted Christian Horner\u2019s job at Red Bull Racing, where the Briton was also CEO \u2014 though Horner\u2019s eventual dismissal came about in part because Red Bull believed he had amassed too much power.<\/p>\n
Wheatley is still believed to be in line for the top job at Aston Martin after an extensive period of gardening leave.<\/p>\n
Supercars exploring wildcard for F1 star | 02:49<\/p>\n
AYRTON SENNA\u2019S DEBUT CAR TO GO UNDER THE HAMMER<\/p>\n
Ayrton Senna\u2019s debut grand prix car is expected to fetch as much as $6.34 million when it goes under the hammer later this month.<\/p>\n
Senna piloted the Toleman TG183B in his debut 1984 Brazilian Grand Prix, where he started 16th and failed to finish thanks to a turbocharger problem.<\/p>\n
The chassis \u2014 number 5, driven while the Brazilian awaited the team\u2019s 1984 car \u2014 carried Senna to sixth place and his maiden points at the following round in South Africa and again in Belgium, though he failed to qualify for the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola.<\/p>\n
It was a low-key start to one of Formula 1\u2019s greatest ever careers, but the arrival of the TG184 yielded better results, including his famous second place in the wet in Monaco and a pair of additional podiums at Brands Hatch and Estoril.<\/p>\n
Those results catapulted him to the more competitive Lotus team for his second season and eventually to McLaren and his first title in 1988.<\/p>\n
RM Sotheby\u2019s will put the car under the hammer on 25 April in Monaco during the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique weekend.<\/p>\n
The car, equipped with a period-correct Hart 415T, is eligible to compete in the famous Monaco historic race as well as other period grand prix events.<\/p>\n
Much of the car is in original condition, including with Senna\u2019s name spelled incorrectly as \u2018Aryton\u2019 on the footrest.<\/p>\n
Senna\u2019s TG183B has been driven by both Martin Brundle and Pierre Gasly in demonstration events and is expected to fetch between \u20ac2.8 million and \u20ac3.8 million ($4.67 million and $6.34 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1 racing is on a break, but the politicking over the regulations is only just beginning. Galvanised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[2074,6074,1724,64,63,248285,288464,2071,1199,288469,288461,288470,288460,288465,288458,9239,229832,49589,2057,817,813,816,272793,841,223949,173130,51250,121112,34887,288471,2328,941,7983,288459,1737,288468,59973,288466,288467,22298,74607,927,3583,288462,22297,21786,33114,931,288457,2643,1183,18780,3595,85,73217,13773,239780,288472,288456,288463,3586,2062,284240],"class_list":{"0":"post-590622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-adrian-newey","9":"tag-africa","10":"tag-asia","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-battery-charge","14":"tag-being-artificial","15":"tag-belgium","16":"tag-christian-horner","17":"tag-crunch-meetings","18":"tag-crunch-regulation-meeting","19":"tag-crunch-rules","20":"tag-debut-car","21":"tag-debut-grand-prix","22":"tag-demonstration-events","23":"tag-eastern-asia","24":"tag-electrical-power","25":"tag-engine-regulations","26":"tag-europe","27":"tag-f1","28":"tag-formula-1","29":"tag-formula1","30":"tag-gardening-leave","31":"tag-grand-prix","32":"tag-grand-prix-car","33":"tag-grand-prix-drivers","34":"tag-grand-prix-events","35":"tag-grant-denyer","36":"tag-imola","37":"tag-inaugural-boss","38":"tag-italy","39":"tag-japan","40":"tag-jonathan-wheatley","41":"tag-junior-position","42":"tag-lando-norris","43":"tag-late-race-battle","44":"tag-like-for-like-replacement","45":"tag-long-time-sporting-director","46":"tag-maiden-points","47":"tag-martin-brundle","48":"tag-mattia-binotto","49":"tag-monaco","50":"tag-northern-europe","51":"tag-period-grand-prix","52":"tag-practice-session","53":"tag-race-weekend","54":"tag-race-weekends","55":"tag-san-marino","56":"tag-senior-leadership","57":"tag-sky-sports","58":"tag-south-africa","59":"tag-southern-africa","60":"tag-southern-europe","61":"tag-sports","62":"tag-suzuka","63":"tag-team-principal","64":"tag-team-principal-role","65":"tag-trackside-manager","66":"tag-turbocharger-problem","67":"tag-two-person-leadership","68":"tag-united-kingdom","69":"tag-western-europe","70":"tag-wildcard-spot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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