(Motorsport-Whole.com) – In order to get Formula 1 up and running again in times of the corona crisis, some suggestions were made. One planned to run several races on one track by not only driving the course in its original direction but also the other way round . Safety concerns quickly arose on a route like Silverstone, but Charles Leclerc would generally find the idea chilly.
“I think it would be pretty exciting to drive backwards like Silverstone,” he says, already imagining how fast he would go through the Becketts curve. Due to the lack of run-off zones in front of Copse, for example, this idea should only remain a theoretical idea.
If the Formula 1 routes really drive backwards, according to Leclerc, it would be as if the drivers were one learn a completely new route. “I did that in karting too,” he says. “And in my experience you get to know a different route. It's like you are driving on a new route.”
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That would make things quite interesting for him, because then the experience advantage of some pilots would be gone and everyone would start on a balanced level.
Generally However, the Ferrari driver does not believe that much will change simply because the course is reversed: “I am pretty sure that Lewis Hamilton would still be the favorite.”
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