Verstappen Calls for Rethink on Minimum Delta Times

Max Verstappen says a re-think is needed on the minimum delta times, as he faces an FIA investigation for impeding in the Mexico pit lane.

Verstappen then is not sure why it has been flagged up as a potential offence, arguing that is the “only” way to now control the gap to a car ahead on the track, and so calls for a different solution. “I think we have to be a little bit more lenient with that, knowing that it’s a safe environment. I mean, we’re driving really slow, it’s the only place where we can make a gap because, I mean, we drive out of the box and of course we are in the beginning of the pit lane, we don’t know of course what other people are doing.

Leclerc, who will launch from pole in Mexico, pointed out venues such as Spa where this minimum time intervention has been positive to stop dangerously slow-moving traffic, though acknowledges that fresh issues have also been sparked. “But the biggest one that I found myself quite a lot in is whenever, especially in Q1, you’ve got two cars that are in a different sequence and if you get out the pits and you pass the Safety Car line too at the same time as a car out on track, then you are basically done, because both of the cars are respecting the minimum lap time and you cannot open the gap and you just have to either fight the car like I did in Qatar with Fernando , or your lap is done.

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