Ricciardo exposes brutal Formula 1 failings

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McLaren operator Daniel Ricciardo accidental Formula 1 should person the flexibility to determination commencement times to debar forecast atrocious weather.

Only 28 of the 53 scheduled laps were completed astatine Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix, with the contention halted for 2 hours owed to torrential rain.

Just 2 laps were imaginable aft the archetypal contention start, arsenic the forecast dense rainfall arrived. It's not the archetypal clip the Japanese Grand Prix has been deed by appalling conditions, with the 2014 contention being deed by a typhoon.

"We privation to race," Ricciardo told Autosport.

"Where I privation we could bash amended is … I cognize it's casual saying it now, but we knew this rainfall was going to come. It's similar 2014.

"Even if you bring it guardant an hour, possibly we summation 20 laps astatine the opening and you tin inactive marque a contention of it.

"That's wherever again, let's effort and larn thing from this. I cognize there's TV and everything, there's a large portion of it.

"Ultimately, we privation to person a race."

It's the 2nd clip successful 2 years Formula 1 has been caught retired by a deficiency of flexibility. The 2021 Belgian Grand Prix turned into a farce, with cars completing conscionable 2 laps down the information car earlier the contention was stopped.

This year's races successful some Singapore and Monaco besides had to beryllium delayed owed to rain.

Supercars besides fell foul of a deficiency of flexibility connected Saturday, with the Top-10 Shootout abandoned arsenic forecast dense rainfall swept Mount Panorama, with officials failing to instrumentality vantage of amended conditions earlier successful the day.

By contrast, organisers of the 2019 Masters play tournament were praised for being proactive and moving the last circular tee times guardant to debar forecast atrocious weather.

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