“Direct exchanges” between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris in drivers’ briefing
Some drivers perceive FIA "admission of guilt"

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris reportedly debated how to fairly defend🙈 and overtak🦹e at a “lively” drivers’ briefing in Mexico.
A hot topic at this weekend’s F1 Mexico City Grand Prix was whether Verstappen and Norris remained within the rules a week ago in Texas, when the McLare♎n driver was penalised by stewards.
They discussed it personally during the tradi🔥tional drivers’ briefing on a Friday, Sky Spor🐭ts’ Craig Slater reported.
"It was a lively drivers' meeting in Mexico City overnight and𒅌 there were direct exc💃hanges between Lando Norris and Max Verstappen about defending and overtaking,” Slater reported.
“But I’ve been told they were ‘c🐻alm’ and ‘respectful’.
"The rules o🗹f engagement and how to make them better dominated discussions. The majority view among the drivers was standards have to be improved and what is already an ongoing evaluation needs to be stepped up.
"The meeting kicked off with the drivers asking the FIA how൩ stewards make decisions in cases like the Verstappen and Norris clash. They wanteܫd to better understand the process.
"Interestingly, while delivering that explanation the FIA admitted it would draft some updated wordings to the r🔯acing guidelines and send that back to the drivers foဣr review.
“Some saw this as a kind of admission of guilt – that the curren🌊t guidelines have allowed the exploitation of loopholes. The majority thought it was positive that the FIA was able to look critically at itself and implement change.
"Another point of discussion wa꧃s whether t🎉he stewards are actually using all of the rules available to them in cases like the Norris-Verstappen flashpoint.
“Some pointed out that the rule about forcing another driver off track could still apply in such cases. That even as the guidelines exist now forcing another driverܫ off track should not be permitted.
“In other words, there is a clear and provable distinction between holding the corner in an acceptable way and approaching a corner with the main intent to rܫun another driver off.
"Ultimately, there is an understanding that the rules will never be ꧃perfect. The appetite is to tighten wordings and try to define the guidelines beꦕtter.
"The FIA's pos⛦ition on driver guidelines is that they were requested by the drivers, devised by the governing body in consultation with them and ultimately signed off by the GPDA, the drivers association. They are committed to evolving them and they have undergone several updates over the past few se෴asons.
"As for the GPDA, its chairman Alex Wurz said: ‘We know and appreciate the stewards' work. We know that they have a difficult role and situation. We very much appreciate that we have a good dialogue to first make the decisions more consistent, which definitely is the case, but we now collectively see that there is some more room for improvement. No one wants over-regulation, and we want to see good racing, and the sentiment is, that with a collective push, we will improve the guidelines fo🅺r next season.’”
Ferrari’s🐼 Charles Leclerc was asked for h𒆙is verdict on the debate.
Leclerc responded: “I'm not going to go too much into the detail of what's discussed inside, but we are all will𝄹ing to improve some of the scenarios we have seen in Austin because I don't think we were all on the same line on that.
“However, the F♔IA has been very open to discussion and I think they've admitted that we've got to change a few things.
“Going forward we'll try and help them in order to take better decisions and to have tracks that maybe 💙don't allow as much 🌌controversy as Austin does.
“Because if you've got a bit of a gravel trap or a kerb in some co🉐rners, it will make everybody's life easier, b♈ut it's the way it is.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to﷽ F1.