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Formula 1 is big business – the interest, excitement and spectacle provided over a few days need to be supported by teams who take decisions and the consequences seriously
Act on direction changes sooner rather than later
How many times do we have to hear about a driver making one or two direction changes as dangerous, when in fact the real issue is a direction change when it’s too late.
With DRS we now have so much overtaking closing speed that a late move has become hugely dangerous.
Both Vettel in Sochi and Magnussen at Suzuka moved too late to block and it was only the brilliance of Hamilton and Leclerc that avoided an aircraft-style accident.
This needs to be addressed sooner rather than later! Tim Richardson By email
After you, Max; oh no, I insist
With reference to Max Verstappen’s penalty for rejoining the track and pushing Kimi Raikkonen off, his comments implied that he believes that when a driver goes off the track, as he rejoins the other drivers should politely slow down and allow him to retake his place in front of them. I look forward to seeing him putting this policy into practice. A Ritemann By email
If you don’t like it, I’ll have a go…
So Max didn’t enjoy his first day of free practice. Well, at 71 I can assure Red Bull that I may have been a few tenths slower, but I would certainly have enjoyed it! Chris Davis By email
Team orders are all part of the game
In the context of the letter entitled ‘Mercedes was out of order’ (October 4), I’d like to ask what the correspondent would consider an ‘un-appalling’ use of team orders?
I have been to the tracks in Monaco, Singapore, Sepang (sadly missed) and Monza – for none of these grands prix would I have felt badly done by had team orders affected the outcome.
Formula 1 is big business – the interest, excitement and spectacle provided over a few days need to be supported by teams who take decisions and the consequences seriously. At the end of the season, Mercedes and Toto Wolff might have been damned if they hadn’t issued the order for Valtteri Bottas to let Lewis Hamilton through.
Unpopular decisions are no doubt frequently made by teams – this was just a very public one and probably well-judged in the great scheme of things. Sandy Wilson By email I believe there was some sort of motorsport spectacle in Wales over the weekend, as evidenced by all the coverage it got (not)? Oh for the days of the RAC Lombard… Graeme Innes-johnstone Elland, West Yorks Your letter provoked an outpouring of nostalgia for the days of Top Gear Rally Report… Turn to page 34 for David Evans’s round-up of a thrilling weekend’s action (above) – ed