Hamilton in favour of a weekend format change

Lewis Hamilton is very much in favour of a new format to a race weekend, and hopes the new cars will push the decision makers towards the idea.

Ross Brawn recently spoke out about the possibility of a future change, however there is no indication of what differences could be made to a weekend.

"I think a new format is definitely needed,” said the Mercedes driver. "Thursday to Sunday has been the same for the last 11 years. At least the ten years I’ve been here’s been the same."

"I think with the way these cars are, the direction and design they go which makes it difficult for us to overtake and then people complain that we don’t overtake. We’ve got to come up with some unique and different races. Maybe every other race is going to be a different scenario."

Hamilton pointed at Monaco as an event which would need some special treatment due to the very difficult overtaking opportunities.

“When you go to Monaco you can’t just do the same race format because no one can overtake there,” he said. “So maybe we need to spice it up, do something different, maybe have a sprint race, I don’t know.”

“The Monaco race should be different to the others. There’s lots of ideas but I’m not going to share them.”

Fergal Walsh