Patrick Head: F1 is boring
The fastest cars in Formula One should be put at the back of the grid to make it more interesting, Williams team co-owner Patrick Head believes.
The F1 boss is proposing a radical shake-up of the sport to make it more interesting.
This would involve putting the fastest cars at the back and the slowest on the front.
‘I would like to see the grids in reverse order of championship position," Head told BBC Sport.
‘It's the same for everybody, and over a whole season the right guy would still win the championship.’
However he believes the scheme would ‘very much upset the purists’ but wants the FIA, the sport’s governing body, to be ‘a bit more adventurous’.
A number of changes are introduced each year to make F1 more interesting but Head believes none have been successful.
‘If you allow the guys to do all this practice and testing and then you line them up with the fastest at the front and the slowest at the back, why should there be any overtaking?’ he added.
‘Maybe overtaking will be less difficult, but if a guy is back there because he is 0.3 seconds slower than the car in front, why should he overtake [it]?’
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