McLaren boss Zak Brown has referred to as for secret votes on rule adjustments to make sure Method 1 groups usually are not pressured by larger companions.
The American laid out what he noticed because the priorities for the game’s future, post-pandemic improvement in a press release on the group web site www.mclaren.com that talked of driving by change for future prosperity.
He highlighted the shut alliances between sure groups as an issue that wanted to be addressed to make sure honest competitors.
Champions Mercedes, McLaren’s engine suppliers, have shut hyperlinks with Aston Martin and Williams whereas Ferrari present Haas and Alfa Romeo with engines.
Final 12 months’s Racing Point (now Aston Martin) bore an in depth resemblance to the earlier season’s Mercedes. Haas and Alfa Romeo each have Ferrari Academy drivers of their line-ups.
“The rise of group affiliations has turn into unhealthy for our sport. It isn’t in the very best pursuits of competitors if two rivals, and even three, share property and align strategically,” stated Brown.
“One of many basic ideas of Method 1, versus different one-make racing collection, is an open competitors between constructors.
“I don’t want to see the variety of groups in F1 cut back, however group affiliations stay a difficulty as a result of they don’t promote a stage taking part in subject. That is the place additional adjustments should be made to the governance of Method 1.”
Brown stated there had been situations the place a group had voted towards their very own pursuits as a way to fulfill an even bigger associate, “This isn’t sport. This isn’t placing the followers first. It’s a scenario that should be addressed and so we name for secret poll voting to be applied in all F1 Fee conferences with speedy impact.”
The F1 Fee should approve any rule adjustments, with a super-majority of 28 out of 30 votes required within the present season. The 10 groups have a vote every, with the governing FIA and Method One having 10 every.
This season has a report 23 races deliberate however Brown instructed much less may very well be extra finally.
“A greater solution to race throughout 25 markets could be to have an F1 season of, say, 20 races, of which 15 or so could be fastened annual occasions and the remaining 5 shared between completely different venues, on a rotational foundation annually,” he stated. (Reporting by Alan Baldwin)