Lewis Hamilton has welcomed Formula 1’s recent decision to limit what information can be shared via team radio which comes into effect at this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix.
The ruling bans any performance related information being passed from engineer to driver and Hamilton has hailed it a return to “old-school” racing.
The Briton reckons the change puts the driver at the heart of the race, forcing them to make their own decisions and forcing their rivals to use their own talent, rather than advice and information from the pits, to be the fastest.
“I remember way back from when we were in karts, the cool thing in karting [is] you don’t have any data – or we didn’t back then. So no one could ever see where I was quick,” he told SkySports.
“Maybe that’s a little bit more of a step in that direction because now you have so much data you can see everything, everything I do, any trick that I have. Every driver in every team will see that from his team-mate, but hopefully this is one step in that [other] direction.
“But I quite like now that we’re left to do it ourselves – that’s how it was back in the karting days. So it’s back to the old-school ways.”
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