There was a lot of chatter late in the season about the so-called racing guidelines in the Formula 1 paddock before the conversation inevitably shifted to more exciting talking points – like the title fight and that other set of ‘not regulations’, called the Papaya rules.
The drivers held a lengthy meeting with the FIA in Qatar which, although annual and pre-planned, still felt like a crunch moment given their comments in the weeks leading up to it. Those remarks suggested there was something to fix. Yet, as outrageous as it may sound, there is a valid argument that many of the drivers actually share: there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with the guidelines themselves. Drivers were involved in developing them, after all. What F1 – drivers and FIA included – needs is a better understanding of what those guidelines actually represent.
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