Todt opens door for conversation with complaining F1-drivers

FIA-president Jean Todt has been under some cross-fire lately from a group of F1-drivers, but the Frenchman has hit back by saying that everyone who has a problem with the rule changes can come up to him to discuss.

Pretty much every driver who was asked about the rule changes of next season gave the same response; they want more say in rule changes.

“Not to say that we know everything, but we know how the cars feel,” Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel said.

Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo agrees that the FIA should at least be courteous enough to hear the drivers' opinions.

Lewis Hamilton even thinks that the drivers should be the ones calling the shots.

Todt came out in German news magazine Focus to discuss all this criticism. While he admits that the drivers aren't wrong, he does think that the delivery of their criticism should be different. He said that drivers should approach him in private with these kinds of things, instead of putting him on blast publicly.

“It’s up to them,” he added.

“I don’t want to now read the headline ‘Todt contradicts Vettel’, but that’s what you’ll do,”  he concluded.

We thought about making the headline for this article exactly that, but that would be too childish of us. Or would it?