F1 race director Charlie Whiting has played down concerns about next year’s grid restarts.<\/p>\n
“We (drivers) all pretty much disagreed (with the proposal) as far as I am aware,” Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo said earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, to spice up the show amid a diminishing television audience, races will re-start from the grid following safety car periods next year.<\/p>\n
But drivers are worried not only that grid restarts are unfair, but that they may also be unsafe.<\/p>\n
The FIA’s Whiting, however, said he is not convinced grid restarts are unfair on the race leader.<\/p>\n
And “If you’re in second place,” he explained, “you might actually like the idea of being able to take the lead, which you probably wouldn’t do in a rolling start.”<\/p>\n
Whiting also said he is also unmoved by the suggestion that the grid will be more dangerous than a rolling restart, insisting “no driver wants that (crashes) to happen and no driver will cause it to happen”.<\/p>\n
“First of all it has to be remembered that this was the suggestion from a team,” he explained.\u00a0 “I put it to the rest of the teams and they all agreed that it was a good idea.<\/p>\n
“The teams were 100 per cent behind it.”<\/p>\n
Whiting also told reporters on Thursday that efforts to turn up the noise of the turbo V6 engines is continuing.<\/p>\n
It is believed Ferrari is testing a sort of ‘double’ exhaust at its Maranello headquarters, following the failure of Mercedes’ ‘megaphone’ solution.<\/p>\n
But, according to Italy’s Autosprint, Whiting said anything that has “an impact on performance” will not be given the green light.<\/p>\n
“These cars are quiet,” the Briton acknowledged, “but is it really a problem?”<\/p>\n
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