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George Russell has revealed that the drivers have already discussed the idea of introducing a \u2018position penalty\u2019 in F1 after multiple drivers complained of the impact – or lack thereof – that five-second time penalties are having.<\/p>\n
Multiple drivers have criticised the current penalty system recently after several instances of drivers attempting audacious lunges, abusing track limits or refusing to concede positions after illegal overtakes, only to utilise their stronger pace to open up a gap larger than the five seconds lost.<\/p>\n
Russell has benefitted from this on a couple of occasions recently, first when failing to hand the place back to Esteban Ocon after an illegal move at turn one in Monza, and then again last weekend at the Circuit of the Americas when he overtook McLaren driver Oscar Piastri while off the track.<\/p>\n
Adding his thoughts on the penalty debate, Russell said: \u201cI think time penalties are so race dependent. We\u2019ve spoken about potentially a position penalty, which is more penalising. If there\u2019s gravel there, if someone pushes you wide, you\u2019re going to end up in the gravel.<\/p>\n
Click here to join our WhatsApp community to be the first to receive breaking and exclusive F1 news.<\/strong><\/p>\n Don’t miss… <\/strong> Sergio Perez and Russell in agreement as F1 praised for popular new change[LATEST] <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSo you\u2019re not really planning to go there. Whereas I was always intending to go around the outside, hoping that it would leave me a bit of space. And if it didn\u2019t, it would just push me wide onto a bit of tarmac.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAnd you sort of worry about the consequences after. I don\u2019t enjoy racing like that. And something does need to change. It\u2019s only probably three circuits in the whole season where it\u2019s like that.\u201d<\/p>\n One driver who has been pushing for change extremely publicly is Alex Albon. The Williams driver claimed that the current system is not proving enough of a deterrent to stop drivers in the top teams from taking unnecessary risks after he was barged out of the way by Red Bull\u2019s Sergio Perez in Singapore.\u00a0<\/p>\n More F1… <\/strong>
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