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Doornbos on reason for third engine for Verstappen: "It is a crooked rule"

23:23, 27 Aug 2021

byGPblog.com

The crash of Max Verstappen at Silverstone and the consequences for him and the team are well known by now. Verstappen is already on his third engine and has to take a grid penalty at the next engine change.

Doornbos says during F1 Cafe that he thinks the rules need to be changed. The rules are just not fair at the moment.

"It's a crooked rule. You are already punished because you are thrown out, then it turns out that there is so much damage that you can't repair the engine. And then you are already on your third engine. With twelve races to go you will never make it, so you have to take a penalty without it being your own fault. That's tough. Monza could be a circuit where you can take the penalty."

Rules must be changed

Doornbos believes that such a crash should not affect the team affected in three ways. "In any case, I think you should do something about it. If it's clear that you're going to be thrown off by someone else, that this doesn't come out of your own budget again." Tom Coronel, also present during F1 Cafe, supports Doornbos.

"Three times you get punished. Replacing the engine, then the money you have to spend on development and the result that is gone. That's too much." Whether there will be a change to the rule remains to be seen.

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3 Comments

VeganWarrior 28 August 2021 at 05:21+ 53011

"It's a crooked rule" that's been around for many seasons, and as unfair it may be ,none of the team principles thought to challenge or change it .

Its a bit disingenuous to be outraged right now, when you had opportunities to change it and due to your lack of foresight this rule.remains in place.

Zareth DeTullio 31 August 2021 at 24:26+ 106

I fail to see how failure to fix an issue in the past is a nail in the coffin for fixing it now.
"It's a bit disingenuous to be outraged by slavery now when there was plenty of opportunities to change it"
Insert literally anything and your implication is we should never do anything if we didn't do it immediately

VeganWarrior 31 August 2021 at 02:44+ 53011

It's a crooked rule that they signed of on. To change the crooked rule you have own up to your past mistake and move foward.

Insert literally anything and process for change is we should always acknowledge our past mistakes and that facilitates positive change for the future.