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F1 bosses against ballast replacing grid penalties

Max Verstappen took a grid penalty in Monza Formula 1 team bosses aren't enthusiastic about the potential of ballast being added to their cars in lieu of grid penalties. The sport currently employs a complicated, even if simplified in recent seasons, matrix of penalties based on when and why new components are introduced to a car. Typically this sees a driver dropped down the grid, though in some instances multiple changes see a driver sent to the back. It's proved an unpopular component of modern Formula 1 with many, including 1980 world champion Alan Jones, feeling it should be the team that is penalised for a reliability fault rather than the driver. Criticisms of the current system...
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