Why drivers think F1's reverse grid push is wrong

Opinion: Formula 1 looks set to plough on with its plans to evaluate reversed-grid qualifying races at select events in 2020 - but this provoked a fierce response from many drivers. Here's why they're so set against the plan

Jonathan Noble Sep 26, 2019, 8:06 AM

Upd: Sep 26, 2019, 4:19 PM

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The two most successful current Formula 1 drivers didn't mince their words when asked to comment about the prospect of reversed-grid races in 2020.

"I don't really know what to say," smiled Lewis Hamilton. "The people that proposed that don't really know what they're talking about."

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Author Jonathan Noble

Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.

Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.