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Verstappen is fuming about FIA rule change: 'This is dangerous'
Max Verstappen thinks it is just terrible that the FIA made up a new rule during qualifying. After the sprint race, Verstappen drew fierce criticism about the new rules.
The FIA is trying to reduce the problems in qualifying this year with new rules all the time. A maximum time for the inlap was already causing problems, and now drivers are also allowed to overtake each other in the pit lane. It is causing quite a bit of frustration among the drivers.
Verstappen completely finished with the FIA
"Absolutely terrible, I think because on this track you have quite a long pit exit and there are some walls but on some other tracks if we implement this you're driving very slowly onto a straight, where people are passing with 300km/h+, and you're maybe driving 15-20 to make a gap, which is I think extremely dangerous. So, for me, this doesn't work at all. It just creates even more trouble," Verstappen revealed at the press conference.
"Look at what was happening yesterday. People were going on the grass, including myself, to try and pass cars. It's just a mess. Every single qualifying you have like six to eight cars getting noted for driving too slow with the minimum time. I don't know what we're trying to achieve."