The FIA Let Drivers Down At The Qatar Grand Prix
The track and tyres simply weren't up to scratch.
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00:00 Sines, DNS, he had major issues.
00:04 It was a shame that he wasn't in the race.
00:06 So he said that the fuel leak was actually
00:10 down to the curbs of the track.
00:11 - Well, they said that they were investigating it,
00:13 but that's what he thought.
00:15 'Cause they had, did you see them?
00:16 They had the pyramid curbs.
00:17 - Yes, dangerous things.
00:18 I don't like them at all.
00:19 - I don't know who thought that was a good idea.
00:20 - The whole track, I thought the whole track
00:22 was badly designed.
00:23 - Also, and I've seen a lot of people say this online.
00:26 It's like, why is F1 the guinea pig for those changes?
00:31 - It's crazy, isn't it?
00:32 - Like the, it was just chaos.
00:35 - Yeah, when you've got cars that quick
00:38 and when it's not like it's an unserious championship,
00:42 like it's the F1 World Championship.
00:44 Why is this not tested?
00:46 Why are we putting these drivers at risk?
00:48 Because we are.
00:50 Like what if there was a fuel leak during the race?
00:52 I don't know, what if there was a fuel leak
00:54 and the fuel hit the exhaust?
00:57 So it's crazy, it's absolute madness.
00:59 And I thought the whole track was badly designed.
01:02 The fact there's so much dust,
01:04 I mean, obviously there's little you can do about that,
01:06 but there's just been,
01:07 there had just been a load of construction.
01:09 They'd made all the changes because the issues with Pirelli.
01:13 What is Pirelli doing?
01:13 And they've just been given a whole new contract.
01:16 This is pure madness.
01:18 You can't, I mean, just the, it's so strange.
01:24 You know, F1 and Pirelli are really proud
01:26 of this new contract.
01:27 It just comes after a weekend
01:29 where the Pirelli tires were not up to scratch.
01:32 - But what was the issue, the track or the tire?
01:36 - The tire.
01:36 They make the tires.
01:38 They are the tire supplier for Formula One.
01:41 They can't say, oh, actually the tire wasn't strong enough.
01:45 Like Qatar is known to be hard on tires.
01:48 But they take that data
01:49 and they build a tire that's good enough.
01:52 And if they can't, then they sod off.
01:54 Give it to someone else who can, Michelin.
01:57 - Bridgestone.
01:58 - Bridgestone, yeah.