In the wake of the F1 team-to-driver radio saga that emerged during the last round if Baku, Nico Rosberg says there is no need to change the rules despite the fact that it was his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton who was flummoxed by a myriad of choices on his steering wheel to rectify a technical issue on his car during the race.
Speaking to media ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix weekend, Rosberg said, “Regarding the issues in Baku, if there’s an issue with the mode you’re in, an issue with the settings, there’s not much you can change. But this is in the nature of the sport, you’re never going to be able to be 100 per cent perfect, never.”
“The goal of these rules is to make it more challenging for the teams and the drivers and you need to make sure as a team that the driver has all the options available to him out there, which is not easy to get 100 per cent perfect and that’s why we had the issues we had in Baku.”
“But that was the goal of these rules and also the fans were complaining that we were just puppets on the track, just doing what the engineers were telling us, that was the complaint from the fans and that’s why they changed the rules and they are the way they are now.
“And they’re fine the way they are, it’s more challenging for us out there, we’re further away from perfection now, as we saw in Baku, so it’s OK. Of course it’s not perfect now, there’s always need to compromise.”
“I understand now that discussions on the radio don’t sound very technical and Formula One like, but you’re never going to have a perfect solution,” added Rosberg, the 2016 F1 world championship points leader.
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