Hamilton interrupts Domenicali interview to tell him “you should have sent us out”.
Lewis Hamilton interrupted a live television interview with Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali to complain about the decision to postpone today’s qualifying session.
2nd Nov 2024
Keith Collantine
RaceFans

Domenicali spoke to the official F1 channel after the session was called off, during which Hamilton interrupted to tell him: “You should have sent us out. It’s ridiculous, we should go out,” said the seven-times world champion as he knowingly crashed the interview, smiling as he did so. “I want to go out. If you give us better wet tyres and [tyre] blankets, we’ll be able to run in this. I’m putting you on the spot.”

F1 drivers have repeatedly complained about the quality of F1’s wet weather tyres in recent years. Two wet weather compounds are specified under the rules, the lightly-treaded intermediates and heavily treaded full wets. However drivers have criticised the performance of the latter and often avoid using it wherever possible. Drivers have also expressed concerns over the FIA’s decision to outlaw the use of tyre heating blankets for wet weather tyres. F1’s official tyre supplier Pirelli introduced a new wet weather compound last year designed not to require blankets.

“You should have sent us out”;

https://www.racefans.net/2024/11/02/...e-sent-us-out/


Lewis Hamilton interrupts Stefano Domenicali interview to make demand of F1 CEO
Lewis Hamilton has reacted to qualifying being scrapped at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Nov 2, 2024
Fraser Watson
Daily and Sunday Express

Lewis Hamilton has told F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali drivers needed "better wet tyres" after rain ruined qualifying at the Brazilian Grand Prix. Following the Saturday sprint race at Interlagos, heavy downpours hit the track, with the initial start time for qualifying moved back on four occasions.

But with the rain showing no sign of relenting, the FIA admitted defeat and abandoned plans for a late start. Qualifying for the Grand Prix will now all take place on Sunday, although no start time has been confirmed with further rain also forecast.

‘Demand of F1 CEO’;

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-a...-F1-CEO-Brazil


Hamilton teases Domenicali after postponed qualifying: 'Give better tyres'
2 Nov 2024
Matt Gretton
GPblog.com

Lewis Hamilton interrupted an interview with Formula 1's CEO Stefano Domenicali and suggested the sport needs better wet tyres. Hamilton jokingly suggested the F1 drivers would've completed qualifying at the wet track in São Paulo if they had better equipment available to them.

'Give better tyres';

https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/31086...in-brazil.html


What Lewis Hamilton told F1 CEO about ‘ridiculous’ Sao Paulo Grand Prix qualifying postponement
2 Nov 2024
David Comerford
F1 Oversteer

Lewis Hamilton and his Formula 1 rivals weren’t able to run in qualifying for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix on Saturday evening. The session had to be postponed due to excessive rain. Qualifying was due to get underway at 15:00 local time, but there was a thunderstorm in the lead-up to the session. Delays were anticipated as a result, and they soon began to arrive.

Lewis Hamilton says F1 needs ‘better wet tyres’ as Brazilian Grand Prix qualifying postponed. After the decision to postpone qualifying was finally made, F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali spoke to Will Buxton on the world feed coverage. He thanked the fans at the circuit for their patience and explained why it was impossible to send the cars out on track.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton interrupted the interview to tell Domenicali, seemingly in a light-hearted tone, that it was a ‘ridiculous’ call. He also proposed a change to prevent a repeat in future. The seven-time world champion wants to see revisions to the wet tyres, presumably so they clear more standing water. Race control expected the drivers to aquaplane on the surface if they went out on Saturday, inevitably leading to accidents.

‘It was a ‘ridiculous’ call’;

https://www.f1oversteer.com/news/wha...-postponement/


Red Bull’s Max Verstappen demoted to fourth at Brazilian GP sprint race
2 Nov 2024
The Straits Times

SAO PAULO - Three-time world champion and series leader Max Verstappen was demoted from third to fourth following the Nov 2 sprint race at the Brazilian Grand Prix for infringing Virtual Safety Car rules.

The demotion meant the Red Bull driver lost a point and enabled race winner Lando Norris of McLaren to trim his deficit to 44 points in the drivers title race with four Grands Prix, and a further sprint, remaining this year.

‘Demoted to fourth’;

https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/f...gp-sprint-race


Fresh twist in Red Bull-McLaren title feud explained
Nov 2, 2024
Edd Straw, Scott Mitchell-Malm
The Race

Red Bull is concerned by how suddenly its early season dominance ended, starting with the Miami Grand Prix in early May. Max Verstappen won four of the first five races but has only won three of the 15 since - although he would have won the Miami race itself but for a safety car that allowed McLaren to score victory with Lando Norris.

Since the race after Miami, at Imola, Red Bull has generally found itself weaker than McLaren, which it feels has been particularly strong late in the race. After the summer break, Ferrari has become increasingly competitive as well.

After exploring various aspects of its own car development, admitting it has had some correlation issues and even using pre-Miami floor designs at some points to gain a reference, Red Bull believes that nothing has changed enough on its side to explain the drop off it has suffered, particularly in race pace. It is searching for a possible explanation for that, plus the steps made by its main rivals, which Red Bull does not believe are justified by car upgrades alone.

‘Fresh twist’;

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/f...ud-tyre-fluid/


Leclerc fined RM47,000 for swearing but Formula One stewards say Verstappen was worse
2 Nov 2024
Malay Mail

SAO PAULO, Nov 2 — Formula One stewards fined Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc 10,000 euros (RM47,430), with half the sum suspended, for swearing in a post-race press conference at the Mexico City Grand Prix last Sunday. The punishment comes after Red Bull’s triple world champion Max Verstappen was ordered in September to carry out “work of public interest” for swearing during a Singapore Grand Prix press conference.

Stewards said in a statement at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix on Friday that the Monegasque’s breach was not as bad as Verstappen’s. Verstappen had alluded, somewhat sorely, to Leclerc’s language when he appeared in an FIA Prix press conference on Thursday. “Apparently it only counts for me anyway because, you know, after the race in Mexico someone was swearing,” the Dutch driver told reporters then, without naming names.

“Apparently it only counts for me anyway”;

https://www.malaymail.com/news/sport...s-worse/155589


Breaking: F1 change entire Brazilian GP Sunday schedule
Qualifying for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix at Interlagos has been given a rescheduled start time after torrential weather caused F1 to delay the session until Sunday - and the grand prix has been brought forward 90 minutes.
2 Nov 2024
Samuel Coop
RacingNews365

It has been confirmed by F1 and the FIA that qualifying for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix will start at 07:30 local time on Sunday, five hours prior to an earlier-than-advertised lights out for the race in Brazil. As per the F1 sporting regulations, the grid-setting session must be completed at least three hours before start time of the grand prix.

The race had been scheduled for 14:00 local time, but due to more bad weather forecast, that start time has been brought forward 90 minutes, to 12:30 local time. That means that qualifying will take place at 10:30 UK time (11:30 for mainland Europe) and the race will start at 15:30 (16:30 for mainland Europe).

‘F1 change entire Brazilian GP Sunday schedule’;

https://racingnews365.com/official-n...-gp-qualifying