168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen has questioned the wisdom of the decision to make the returning F1 Chinese Grand Prix a sprint weekend.

F1 is returning to the Shanghai International Circuit for the firs♓t time since 2019, after the COVID-19 pandemic caused the Chinese Grand Prix to be cancelled for four consecutive years.

China has been selected as the first of six sprin🔯t events this year, a decision which reigning world champion Verstappen - an open critic of the sprint format - has questioned.

"Yeah, it's very smart to do that,” Verstappen sarcastically replied when🃏 asked for his thoughts on the move.

"I think it's not great to do that becau🐼se when you have been away from a track for quite a while, I think you never know what you're going to experience, so it would have been better to have a normal race weekend there.

"On the other hand, it probably spices things up a bit more, and that's maybe what they would like to see. But purely from a driving and performance perspective of the sport, I t𓂃hink it's not the smartest thing to do.

"We'll see what we get there.ౠ I always loved driving there, so hopefully we can hit the ground running as well as we can, and hopefully we don't need to fine-tune too many things on the car.”

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez agreed with his Red Bull teammate, saying: "I just hope that there are no issues with the track, with any drain holes, any iꦚssues like that.

"That will just put us out of sync. But ജI think f🔥or the show, probably it's good. It's a good thing.

“But I think from the preparation side, it's going to be definitely one that is going to be really hard because, I mean, I've never raced there, for 🐓example, with Red Bull so it's going to be quite a lot to do in a single practice.”

Ferrari’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz said it “makes sense” to hold a sprint event in China, but highlighted concerns about ꦕa lack of practice around a circuit that F1 cars have not run on for several years. 

"I think China as a race circuit is a great one, I think it's one of our favourites for everyone," he said. "It's just a great rac♚ing track and a track that offers a good possibility to overtake, so a sprint makes sense to have it there.

"At the same time🌌, it's w♔hat we said in the drivers' briefing to the FIA and Formula 1.

"With these kind of cars✨, to go to a track with one hour of practice and straight into qualifying, with the regulations that they put on us, with the plank wear and th⛦ings like this and how tricky one bump could make the car, I think it's not a good choice to put the sprint [there] after four or five years of absence.

"We a♚lso heard there's been resurfacing going on. Maybe for you guys at home,ꦿ it's exciting, but for engineers and drivers, in my opinion, we shouldn't take the risk and have a normal weekend."