Miami Grand Prix: Fernando Alonso says rules should be given time despite lack of entertainment

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Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen moving one-two astatine the Azerbaijan Grand Prix

Fernando Alonso says Formula 1 should springiness its rules much clip earlier taking enactment to effort to hole the deficiency of on-track entertainment.

But the two-time satellite champion added that Red Bull's vantage implicit the field, the closeness of the remainder of the cars and the fragility of tyres were each to blame.

Alonso said: "If Red Bull were not truthful acold ahead, it is simply a precise absorbing combat with 3 oregon 4 teams wrong 0.1-0.2secs. And possibly past we would beryllium saying the rules were a success."

He added: "Maybe this is the communicative successful a fewer years' clip erstwhile we person immoderate stableness successful the rules."

F1 changed its method rules for the 2022 play to effort to bring the tract person unneurotic and marque overtaking easier.

But though the cars person been capable to tally person to each other, Red Bull person dominated and the racing seems small different.

Mercedes squad main Toto Wolff said the athletics needed to look into what it tin bash astir the past contention successful Azerbaijan being "boring".

Alonso was asked whether helium felt the caller cars - which make their show from an underfloor aerodynamic diagnostic known arsenic 'ground effect' - were the close mode to go.

"It's a bully question," the Aston Martin operator said. "There were higher expectations of pursuing cars and possibly having the grid a small spot person together, but I deliberation we request to springiness a small spot much time."

Asked wherefore overtaking seemed harder this year, Alonso said: "I deliberation due to the fact that we are precise adjacent successful presumption of performance. If you region the Red Bulls, sometimes determination is conscionable betwixt 3rd and 16th spot successful archetypal qualifying.

"Then, yet you decorativeness qualifying successful the bid you merit and past successful the race, however volition you overtake a car successful beforehand of you that is conscionable fractional a tenth quicker than you? It is your earthy order. That is the main reason."

But helium besides said the propensity of the Pirelli tyres to endure from overheating erstwhile pushed hard oregon erstwhile a operator is pursuing different car was besides a factor.

"It could beryllium the tyres arsenic well," Alonso said. "They inactive get overheated rather heavy if you travel cars. You request to determine wisely erstwhile you privation to beryllium excessively adjacent to a car successful beforehand of you, truthful that's the problem."

Ferrari's Carlos Sainz said the drivers were processing a statement connected the contented and that they should marque much effort to prosecute with F1 and governing assemblage the FIA connected the topic.

The FIA's determination to shorten the portion successful which drivers tin usage their DRS overtaking assistance successful Baku was besides criticised by immoderate - and the aforesaid determination has been made for this weekend's Miami Grand Prix.

But Alonso said the FIA had made that calculation due to the fact that Baku and Miami were 2 of the races past twelvemonth wherever overtaking was easiest.

And helium pointed retired that portion Mercedes recovered it hard to overtake successful Baku, they were utilizing a higher-downforce set-up than others. And that the Red Bulls could overtake good earlier the archetypal country utilizing DRS.

"If you instrumentality 1 car, it was excessively agelong and if you instrumentality another, it was excessively short," Alonso said. "So I conjecture it was astir the calculations that the FIA bash aft seeing past year's races.

"Baku and Miami were connected the precocious broadside successful presumption of overtaking and however casual it was and that's wherefore they shortened it."

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