Horner labelled the stewards’ determination as “very harsh”, bringing quite a few printouts of telemetry and GPS knowledge to a post-race media session to exhibit that Norris wouldn’t have made the nook at Flip 4 it doesn’t matter what.
“There’s nice racing occurring and I feel it’s simply necessary that the foundations of engagement are truthful, quite than giving a bonus to the skin line,” the Crew Principal defined.
“Being on the skin has at all times been the extra dangerous place to be, however now it’s virtually the benefit, as a result of all you’ve obtained to do is have your nostril forward on the level they flip irrelevant of whether or not you’re going to make the nook or not.
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“I feel we’re at risk of flipping the overtaking legal guidelines the wrong way up, the place drivers will simply attempt to get their nostril forward on the apex after which declare that they should be given room on the exit, and you’ll see fairly clearly he’s successfully come off the brakes, gone in tremendous, tremendous late, to attempt to win that argument so far as the way in which these rules are written.
“At that time you’re penalised. Now, each karting circuit, each indoor karting circuit around the globe, should you’ve obtained the within line, you management the nook. It’s one of many rules within the physics of racing and I feel that they only must get again to fundamentals that should you’re on the skin, you do not have precedence.”
