Pitlane shenanigans price worth paying for qualifying solution, say F1 drivers

Since last season, the FIA has been making efforts to avoid dangerous scenarios of drivers coming across slow-moving cars while on flat-out qualifying laps.

Various ideas have been trialled, with an attempt at the Bahrain Grand Prix to force drivers to keep to a maximum delta time at all marshalling posts abandoned after it proved troublesome in practice.

The solution used in Bahrain – there being a maximum time for a whole lap once cars are…