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Verstappen and Leclerc rip into Jean Todt's 2021 proposals
Jean Todt, the president of the FIA, came forward with some of his own ideas which he thought would make Formula 1 better in 2021. He proposed that drivers shouldn't benefit from the anti-stall aid, but that doesn't get support from either Max Verstappen or Charles Leclerc.
At the start of the Austrian Grand Prix, Verstappen failed to get away cleanly when the lights went out. The Dutchman went on to win that race after his Red Bull car used anti-stall to keep running. Verstappen draws on this occasion in his response to Todt's proposal.
“I think it’s always good to keep the car in action, isn’t it? A man has a bad start but at least he’s still running. It can happen to more cars in a pit stop or whatever. I think it would be a bit silly that you lose a car for that," Verstappen told RaceFans.net.
Todt also spoke about reducing the chat between driver and team during sessions. He thought this would make the sport less predictable, but Leclerc wouldn't like to see it used because the cars are so complex.
“I think we are quite limited in that the cars are so complex now that we also need to make them run, having the help of the engineers, in the background. Maybe [we can] reduce some information but I think we are limited into that, just by the complexity of the cars now," Leclerc noted.