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Gasly: People are too quick to criticise "great" F1

Formula 1 newcomer Pierre Gasly feels “way too many people” are critical of modern grand prix racing. The 2017 season featured F1's first multi-team title fight since the switch to V6 hybrid engines in 2014, but the new higher-downforce cars were not conducive to wheel-to-wheel battles, with overtaking falling by half as a result. The championship also came in for criticism due to the amount of engine component-related penalties that regularly shuffled up the grid and drew the ire of F1's new sporting boss Ross Brawn. But when asked about grid penalties, Gasly said he was reluctant to criticise F1 as he felt it already got a disproportionate amount of flak. “I don’t want to talk...
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