Oscar Piastri quizzed about increased dive-bombs after F1 drivers’ briefing
Debate around racing gui♈delines rumbles on in Brazil

Oscar Piastri was asked whether F1 drivers were dive-bombing more in Mexiꦦco after discussing the topic in their briefing.
L🃏ast week, the traditional drivers’ briefing was reportedly dominated by talk of how to interpret the F1 guidelines.
It was suggested to McLaren driver Piastri that this debate was followed by a noticeable increase♏ in dive-bombs to the ape🐠x.
Piastri denied it, saying: “Not massively, I don't think.Personally, I didn't think it was that much differe🌠nt.
“It depends on, I guess, sometimes the people involved. An♔d not everyone races in exactly the same way.
“I think we're all ve🧔ry, very hard. But I didn't really notice a change,ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ personally.
“There was obviously the contact with Liam Laꦜwson and Checo Perez, which was very, very hard. But I don't think it really changes.
“Th😼ere are these guidelines out there, but I think there's a few 🅺principles we have as drivers - you don't really want to crash the car because it hurts and it costs money.
“And also, you don't want anyone to overtake you.
“So to the🐓n think in the moment that ‘I'm just going ♎to release the brakes to get ahead at the apex and not worry about the consequences’ or whatever?
๊“It goes a bit further than just what'sಞ written on a piece of paper, I think.
“Maybe some people will race a bit differently with someꦗ of the Stewards' decisions, but that happens with every incident.
“It kind of sets a precedeಞnt no matter what it is. So I don't think it will change that𒈔 much, but we'll see.”
Max Verstappen was penalised twice by the stewards 🥀in Mexico for clashes with Lando Norris.
The grey line of legality on the race✃-track is a hot topic at this weekend’s F1 Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
Piastri ♈was asked about whether he is content with the racing guid🌌elines and whether they need to be amended.
“Yes, there probably🌳 are some tweaks that need to be made,” the McLaren driver said.
“And, you know, the FIA has acknowledged📖 thatꦕ and wants to work with us on that, which is very positive.
“But I🐻 think in general, we've got more consistency, maybe some things can still be a bit more consistent, but I think at least for the Stewards, they now have a set of guidelines as to what kind of rule should be applied.
“I think꧟ we all agree that the rules may be not perfect and should be chan🌄ged a bit.
“But at least we have something to look back to, which we didn't have before♔ that.
“So I think things can always be 𝄹improved. These guidelines haven't beeꩵn around for that long in the grand scheme of things.
“Again, you can't write rules, especially in racing, that are goingಌ to cover every single possibility and situation.
“So you always do need a kind of subjective steward 🔜to add their thoughts. But yes, I think we're in a much better place than we have been.
“And the FIA has been very, very suppor꧙tive of trying to change that with us.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports f♈or a decade cov💟ering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.