The F1 drivers paid tribute to Senna and Ratzenberger
This 12 months marks 30 years since Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna tragically misplaced their lives at Imola, in what stays to at the present time the darkest Formulation 1 weekend in fashionable instances.
To mark this, four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel gathered immediately’s F1 drivers on Thursday to recollect and pay tribute to Ratzenberger and Senna.
Collectively they ran a lap across the observe stopping on the websites of the 2 deadly crashes, carrying yellow t-shirts impressed by Senna’s iconic helmet and wristbands to pay tribute to Ratzenberger.
The one drivers not carrying the tribute jersey had been Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen. Bottas was as a substitute carrying biking gear and Verstappen was carrying a Purple Bull shirt. Nonetheless, the reigning world champion was one of many few who wore a pin to pay tribute to Ratzenberger, who in any other case typically results in the background when the F1 weekend at Imola 1994 comes up.
Verstappen can run double races this weekend
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Max Verstappen just isn’t content material with driving an F1 race this weekend.
The reigning world champion has introduced swimming gear to Imola in order that he may also participate within the digital swimming race over 24 hours on the Nürburgring.
– It’s not a collision. An endurance race is run by a number of individuals collectively, proper? says Verstappen to ESPN.
The Dutchman is signed as much as compete for the Redline staff, however he’s clear that nothing is written in stone.
– We are going to see what occurs. The F1 race is in fact the precedence, but when I get a little bit of time, who is aware of what can occur?
Appearing after the criticism in opposition to Magnussen
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Kevin Magnussen sparked a lot debate on the weekend in Miami, after he incurred a number of time penalties because of his aggressive driving fashion in an try and maintain Lewis Hamilton behind him within the dash race.
The time penalty ruined the Dane’s race, however led to teammate Nico Hülkenberg having the ability to rating vital factors for Haas.
McLaren’s staff boss known as Magnussen’s driving “unacceptable” and stated he deserved to be disqualified.
Now states motorsport.com that the FIA is contemplating introducing more durable penalties to stop one thing like this from occurring once more. As a substitute of a 10-second time penalty, they need to have the ability to situation a drive by means of penalty, which in flip would imply that the motive force is compelled into the pit and thus unable to dam anybody else.
The positioning states that the federation, the groups and the race leaders mentioned the problem on Friday.