THE radios. Drivers will be able to communicate with their teams during the sessions. Something that has given Formula 1 so many good moments. But not everyone in the paddock is convinced. The double champion Pecco Bagnaia He publicly rejected it.
He even assumes that he will be fined if he does not use the radios and compares his situation to that of Michael Jordan and his red sneakers: “I think I will have fines, like Jordan, every race, because I’m not going to use any of that. “Jordan got fined every game because he wore red sneakers.”
“I tried the system and it squeezes the bones: just spending 30 seconds with your fingers on it, it starts to hurt.”imagine driving for 40 minutes. It doesn’t make sense, so they’ll give me fines. We have all the possible systems to be notified of everything: the ‘dashboard’, the blackboard, so we don’t need other communications that could distract us. We ride motorcycles that don’t allow us to do that,” explains the second in the championship behind Jorge Martín.
The change of tires for next year, however, he likes: “I love it. It was something I really needed. I’m a rider who uses the brakes a lot on corner entry, and this compound seems to work really well in that sense.”
“It probably makes it a little bit harder to change direction because it’s a little bit heavier, but I really like the handling and the way it allows you to push the rubber. Also, the feeling is that when you are behind another bike you feel less of the pressure problem, so it can be a step forward. I like it a lot and I hope they use it next year,” Pecco details.
“My problem with the tyres we have now is that I can’t brake as well as I would like because the front compound doesn’t hold up. With this one, however, I have a lot more margin.” I decided to try to force him in turns 2 and 4where if I had fallen, nothing would have happened because they are slow, to see if there was movement, or the front part closed, but it held very well. I think it is the biggest step forward they have made in recent years”, concluded Bagnaia after the Misano tests this Monday.
