{"id":123428,"date":"2021-09-03T12:46:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=123428"},"modified":"2021-09-03T12:56:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:56:15","slug":"ricciardo-lauds-f1s-change-in-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=123428","title":{"rendered":"Ricciardo lauds F1's 'change in mindset'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian Formula 1<\/a> driver Daniel Ricciardo<\/a> has hailed the sport's governing body over "a change in mindset" to safety.<\/p>\n

The McLaren<\/a> driver's comments follow last weekend's frustrating Belgian Grand Prix<\/a>, at which no racing took place as the grid instead completed two laps behind a safety car.<\/p>\n

No overtaking is allowed when a safety car is on the track and, at the Belgian Grand Prix, half points were awarded<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ricciardo, competing in his 200th Formula 1 grand prix<\/a>, collected six points because he had finished fourth in qualifying.<\/p>\n

The Western Australian has since acknowledged the shift in attitude toward safety, which stands in stark contract to the hopeless efforts to improve on-track welfare in the early days of the world championship.<\/p>\n

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"There's definitely a change in mindset to it all," Ricciardo said.<\/p>\n

"Obviously I wasn't around in that era, but it was kind of normal to have fatalities and all that in the sport.<\/p>\n

"I'm sure it was very hard to accept, but maybe because it was more regular it was somewhat expected.<\/p>\n

"Now, knowing what we know, or at least what I know, would I have raced in the 60s? With the knowledge I have now, no.<\/p>\n

"At the end of the day, it's a sport, so we like the risk, but if you're talking a matter of life and death, I don't think that's worth anything."<\/p>\n

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The world championship recorded 11 deaths in the 1950s, the first decade of the competition, before the 1960s resulted in eight deaths and the 1970s nine.<\/p>\n

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A shockwave was sent through the Formula 1 world when Ricciardo's McLaren teammate, young Briton Lando Norris<\/a>, crashed his car during the Belgian Grand Prix qualifying<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Norris lost control of his McLaren in soaking-wet conditions as he tried to navigate the uphill sweep of the fast Eau Rouge corner.<\/p>\n

Miraculously, he emerged unscathed and was approved to race in Belgium.<\/p>\n

"You look at Lando's crash on Saturday and I think he proved you can still have a big one," Ricciardo said.<\/p>\n

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"And those conditions at the time, they were okay, well, on the edge, but obviously okay for us to have a green light.<\/p>\n

"So I think we are still competing in a dangerous sport and playing on the edge of danger, but I think there's kind of danger and being unsafe and then there's the extreme, of course, with unnecessarily having people heli-aired out of here."<\/p>\n

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