Jeremy Clarkson pitches solution for F1’s overtaking problem

Jeremy Clarkson pitches simple 🍒solutio💛n to improve F1 racing after a dull Japanese Grand Prix.

Jeremy Clarkson at last year's British Grand Prix
Jeremy Clarkson at last year's British Grand Prix

Jeremy Clarkson has suggested how F1 can solve its overtaking problem following a tedious Ja🦹pan🃏ese Grand Prix.

Sunday’s grﷺand prix at Suzuka proved to be a 53-lap snooze fest as the drivers struggled to overtake due to the issue of dirty air aff𓆉ecting the car’s aerodynamic performance.

Concerns have been raised that this season could become a168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: “qualifying world championship”, with all four races so far (including the China sprint) won b🐽y the driver starti꧑ng on pole position.

While the Chinese Grand Prix was hardly a thriller💛, Japan was particularly processional, with just 15 overtakes completed and 11 of the 20 drivers finishing th🍰e race in the same position they started it.

Ferrari’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton was th🎉e only driver inside the top 10 to gain a position.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen claimed his first victory of the season for Red Bull, having resisted race-long pressure from the chasing McLarens of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri.

Plenty of fans were left disgruntled by the lack of action, including forme𝔍r Top Gear host and F1 p🧔addock regular Clarkson.

Clarkson took to social media to share a s▨imple fix - by urging F✅1 to avoid using tracks where overtaking is difficult.

“I’ve had an idea to make F1 racing more consistently exciting. Don’t use tra🐬cks where overtaking is difficult,” Clarkson wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

“Su🐭re. The cars are bigger so accept that, ignore the “incentives”, and use tracks that are suitable. Ultimatel🅘y, the revenue comes from fans. Always.

“That F1 race this 😼morning gave me an idea of what it might be like to watch cricket.”

Even F1 drivers were bored

It was not just fans left bored by the tepid grand prix, with Norris saying: "It was flat-out from start𝕴 to finish but the pace was too similar to do anything.

“Max drove a good race with no mistakes, and it ultimately came down to qualifying p🥀ositions.”

F1 rookie 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Gabriel Bortoleto commented: "It was not so difficult just a bit boring to stay behind [the car ♍i🍰n front].

🌳“Even if you have more pace, which was my case towards the end of the✨ race, it was not enough to have that really big pace advantage.

"I tried two times [to๊ overtake] but I wasn't able to be side by side at th🌼e end of the straight. A shame but we move on."

However, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso, who finished just outside of the points in 11th, pointed out that F1 drivers always find so🐈methin⛄g to complain about.

"Maybe💞 one stop was not maybe the fun race that we were hoping for, and in the past with multiple stops, maybe there's a tyre difference," he said.

“When we don't have grip we complain that the✨re is no grip, and when we have too many stops we complain the tyres don't last, so instead of seeing the negative part of the weekend, I try to enjoy what we experienced this weekend, and it was another great Suzuka."

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