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The radio link between the FIA ​​and the teams will now be public

Formula 1 will now not only broadcast live radio conversations between racers and teams, but also between teams and race management. Michael Masi thinks this is good. It is now the case for command desks to think three times before declaring anything.

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We have been witnessing how for several years now racers and their engineers or team bosses play by radio cats with a mouse s“coded”Messages. This year, something came along new. Because sometimes we also hear conversations between now team chiefs in race leadership.

During the race GP of Spain in Barcelona, ​​he pressed the hot button to connect with the race management Toto wolff, the head of the Mercedes team, who Michael Massi complained about this year 's newcomer to Formula 1 Nikito Mazepin, who held back Lewis Hamilton. On the race GP of France so what Massia called Ron Meadows in Jonathan Wheatley. Both team managers complained of an urgent opinion too high curbs, causing damage to race cars. Massi replied to both: “If the racers stay on the track, then there are no problems for the racers.”In Austria, at GP of Styria, is after rotation Bottas in the pits announced McLaren’s team manager Paul Jamesto draw attention to the danger of this action.

Michael Masi, FIA race director, confirmed that radio talks between the teams and the race management will now be public, which we heard for the first time this year at the race in Spain - Photo: HB Press

And what he says about all this Masi? "All teams are actively using radio communication and this has been the case for years. What’s new is that now fans are hearing this too. This has led to fewer complaints now. I imagine that today people think twice before contacting us. As for the Bottas case, we would have acted even without a message from Paul James. In such cases, we show on the monitors that we will investigate the case so that the teams know that we will look at this in detail.“What do they decide then four race commissioners, this with conversations between teams and Masi has nothing to do. “What is being said between me and the teams is not open to Commissioners. Their decisions are therefore completely independent of such discussions."            

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