This subject turned a dialogue after it was insinuated that Sergio Perez crashed on his personal accord in qualifying for the 2022 Monaco Grand Prix to make sure he out-qualified Max Verstappen.
Nico Rosberg famously went down the escape street in qualifying in Monaco 2014, costing teammate Lewis Hamilton a shot at pole, leaving the British driver fuming afterwards.
Much more not too long ago, George Russell benefitted from his spin in qualifying on the Sao Paulo GP.
Brown thinks any driver who causes a yellow or purple flag in qualifying and thus impedes his rival(s) ought to have their present lap time deleted.
“I believe it ought to be purple flags or yellow flags, successfully impeding a driver from finishing their lap,” Brown defined
“They try this in different types of motorsports: you simply lose your quickest lap from that session. All of the drivers are inclined to do one lap runs [anyway] so that will penalise the driving force if it was intentional or unintentional.
“Since you’ve tousled another person’s lap, I believe that is a simple resolution and it may be applied immediately.”
Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi mentioned the thought of getting an “further time” rule.
“What I may say even personally is that they penalise themselves in any case,” Rossi mentioned.
“So, I might think about that you might maybe lengthen the session by an additional lap or two, to permit for the others to complete their scorching lap for example, and the driving force himself wouldn’t proceed with none penalty.
“We have to have an intensive overview, [but] we should not be too fast at condemning a driver, or a staff.”
