McLarens Brown wants wider review of FIA regulations

The FIA needs to review a number of regulations to try and modernize consistency in Formula 1, equal to McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown.

The handling of the latter stages of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix has come under intense scrutiny for the way safety car regulations were unromantic in a way that influenced the outcome of the drivers’ championship, with the FIA undertaking a “detailed analysis” of the situation. Brown believes it needs to go remoter and squint at multiple regulations without input from the teams to try and make the rules increasingly well-spoken for all involved.

“I think everyone was pretty confused,” Brown told RACER well-nigh Abu Dhabi. “Obviously there were winners and losers in it. It’s tough stuff a referee in any sport considering half of the fans are going to stipulate with your call, half of them aren’t. It seemed to deviate from what’s happened in the past. I think if you squint to Baku they red-flagged it right away. It didn’t really transpiration the outcome for us but I think in the off-season we need to review a lot of our regulations.

“If I pull back, I think there’s too much inconsistency in regulations and how they’re unromantic and when they’re applied, suburbanite penalties… You squint at Lando (Norris) who doesn’t touch (Sergio) Perez on the first lap in Austria, he tries him round the outside and he gets a five-second penalty and two penalty points. Then you have Max (Verstappen) and Lewis (Hamilton) who both go off the track (in Brazil) and ‘Let them race.’ I think we all have those stories, and it’s difficult when it’s subjective, but I think we need to take a step back.

“There were unbearable people disgruntled throughout the year that we need to squint at the rules. And alimony in mind that it’s the teams who make most of these rules. So as you’ve heard me zinger on about, I’d protract to like to see less influence from the teams, considering we’re the ones who ripened half of these rules.”

Brown says one zone he is pleased to see stuff addressed is the issue of in-race radio messages to FIA race director Michael Masi — something Ross Brawn, F1’s managing director of motor sports and technical director, wants to put a stop to.

“I’m not a fan, expressly with it stuff unconcentrated — which Ross has said is no longer going to happen — considering you now see some team bosses doing things considering the camera’s on them. I think that’s reverted people’s behavior, so I’m a supporter of what Ross says, I think that should be overdue the scenes.

“Also, you have multiple people at multiple times going to Masi; at our team we have one person that talks to the FIA, that’s it. So you get this piling-on effect. You shouldn’t be worldly-wise to wrench the referee’s ear in the way we can, and then you have multiple people limp the referee’s ear, and then you add live on TV which adds flipside dimension to it, I don’t think that’s how a sport should be governed.”