RoadTrip
petitioned for a just cause
Yeah, perhaps. I just think the way the regulations are now, it’s very possible to have a fast car in quali and not in the race. With Parc Ferme, with tyre and fuel regs, DRS, and many other things, the car on pole may well not be the faster race car anymore whereas certainly in the past, it very likely was.The statistics show that the pole-sitter takes more than 40% of race wins. This information is based on the overall race wins since Formula 1 began in the 1940s. Out of the 1,066 completed Grand Prix races, the driver that has become the pole-sitter has won the race 450 times as of the 2022 Canadian Grand Prix.
I think this has skewed people's thoughts... This season has shown these cars can overtake and being on pole on most tracks isn't the be all and end all.