Star driver facing 'silly' F1 ban calls for overhaul

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As a one-race prohibition looms, Pierre Gasly has continued his propulsion for Formula 1 to reappraisal its "silly" punishment points system.

The Frenchman recovered himself nether the microscope aft coming wrong conscionable 2 points of receiving a authorisation from the sport's governing body.

The earliest helium volition driblet immoderate points is successful May and helium fears helium won't beryllium the lone operator to travel adjacent to the threshold.

Aston Martin's Lance Stroll is adjacent connected the database with 8 points, Alex Albon of Williams has seven, and Stroll's caller teammate Fernando Alonso has six.

The aforementioned trio volition each driblet points earlier successful the play than Gasly.

The AlphaTauri operator said much leeway needs to beryllium fixed by the FIA with the summation successful races for 2023.

In 2022, determination were 22 grands prix and 3 sprint qualifying races. In 2023, determination volition beryllium 23 grands prix, accounting for the cancellation of the Chinese Grand Prix.

There will, however, beryllium doubly arsenic galore sprint qualifying races, opening the doorway for much penalties to beryllium imposed, according to Gasly.

The fig of sessions has lone accrued marginally crossed the season, though immoderate signifier sessions person been dropped successful favour of the qualifying races that arguably travel with much jeopardy with wheel-to-wheel racing.

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"I effort not to deliberation [about it] due to the fact that I spot myself arsenic not arsenic a silly operator oregon unsafe driver," Gasly said.

"I effort to beryllium cautious with each the, let's say, silly punishment points you could suffer with procedures and worldly similar that.

"So I effort to beryllium connected apical of that. I deliberation my attack to racing has been the same.

"I truly anticipation we tin person a reappraisal connected the full strategy implicit wintertime due to the fact that I bash judge I'm not going to beryllium the lone 1 successful occupation if we support it that way.

"It volition beryllium a shame to spot 4 oregon 5 racing drivers banned for a contention and having a title with immoderate guys missing retired connected a race."

Gasly said the Grand Prix Drivers' Association has spoken astir the contented "all the time".

He believes the FIA volition analyse the contented and find a solution successful the involvement of fairness.

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