{"id":591483,"date":"2026-04-07T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591483\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:26:09","slug":"f1-champions-lewis-hamilton-admission-has-martin-brundle-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591483\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 champion\u2019s Lewis Hamilton admission has Martin Brundle worried"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a lot to discuss coming out of last month’s Japanese Grand Prix, but there’s one thing in particular that has Sky Sports’ Martin Brundle<\/a> concerned. <\/p>\n

\nThe long-time commentator and former driver pulled out one specific thing that reigning F1 champion Lando Norris<\/a> said about the race, which the broadcasting veteran said the sport has ‘got to’ change. <\/p>\n

\nNorris revealed there were times in the race when he didn’t want to try an overtake on Lewis Hamilton, with whom he was fighting for much of the race<\/a>, but his battery deployment system meant he had little choice. That, in turn, led to Hamilton breezing back past him thanks to the McLaren’s depleted battery. <\/p>\n

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\nSpecifically, Norris said: “Honestly some of the racing, I didn’t even want to overtake Lewis, it’s just my battery deploys, and I don’t want it to deploy but I can’t control it. So I overtake him and then I have no battery, so he just flies past.” <\/p>\n

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Brundle: Drivers shouldn’t have any surprises<\/p>\n

\nThat, Brundle<\/a> said on The F1 Show<\/a> after the race, is an absolutely unacceptable state of affairs. <\/p>\n

\nCalling the system a ‘big issue for the FIA’<\/a>, Brundle called for change as quickly as possible \u2013 citing the sport’s own regulations about drivers being ‘alone and unaided’ in driving the car. <\/p>\n

\n\u201cOne thing that really worried me was Lando Norris<\/a> saying ‘I didn’t want to overtake Lewis Hamilton<\/a>, but my battery decided it did and then I had nothing to defend with’,” Brundle said. <\/p>\n

\n\u201cNow there’s a regulation in Formula 1. It’s been around forever. It’s very simple and far reaching: \u2018The driver must drive the car alone and unaided\u2019, and I think that’s what I talked about linearity\u2026 the driver shouldn’t have any surprises by a self-learning car. <\/p>\n

\n“They’ve got to get rid of that. I’m sure it’s not the work of a moment, but the power delivery must be proportional to what the driver is doing with the throttle. That’s a fundamental. It has to has to be linear as I said. So it’s a big issue for the FIA.\u201d <\/p>\n

Norris explains F1 battery issue<\/p>\n

\nNorris went into more depth about the yo-yo nature of the new deployment system after the race, complaining that there is ‘not enough control’ for those driving the cars. <\/p>\n

\n“The problem is,” he said, “it deploys into 130R, I have to lift, otherwise I’ll drive into him, and I’m not allowed to go back on throttle. If I go on throttle, my battery deploys, and I don’t want it to deploy, because it should have cut, but because you lift, and you have to go back on and it redeploys. <\/p>\n

\n“There’s nothing I can do about it, so there’s just not enough control for a driver, and that’s why you’re just too much at the mercy, of what’s behind you, and that’s just not how it should be.” <\/p>\n

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