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Both teams will put the drivers on the most risk-free run plans possible. A crash would only happen if another driver ran into them.
FP1 conditions won't be representative for qualifying or the race either so missing it isn't a huge blow.
Not like an FP1 crash is the end of the world anyway. Unless they have a mega shunt that ruins the gearbox/chassis and forces the team to see which parts can be salvaged, it can be rebuilt between sessions.
don't want to bring up baku again but red bull head of technical Wache said this -
"I think it's so difficult to develop that I think some grey areas are so attractive as an engineer. When you see the rear wing of McLaren, I'm sorry, but it's more than grey, and they use it for multiple races. Because, without that, Baku, they will not win. Even our constructors' championship will be completely different."
I mean it was very obvious that it was past the gray area, only people defending it were McLaren fans. Sucks to think about Baku really... that was likely a 30 point swing(14 if Charles won ahead of Piastri, 12 for Sainz holding P4 and then Norris would have lost 4 points as well if there was no crash).
This also helped them tremendously in Monza and Spa as well, could have been even better for us then. Either way, the focus is now onto Abu Dhabi. The last rear limited, high degradation circuit we went to was COTA and we dominated there, gotta hope for more of the same.
