Time to get rid of a flawed F1 rule
May 20, 2021
3 minutes
KEVIN TURNER
It’s been a flawed concept from the start, but there’s now enough evidence to say for sure: Formula 1’s point for the fastest lap is a bad idea. Fastest lap statistics have always been fraught; not quite pointless, but requiring lots of caveats. For example, the fact that arch-rivals Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna scored 41 and 19 fastest laps respectively tells us something about their different approaches to a race weekend, but is merely one part of a much bigger picture.
Similarly, Kimi Raikkonen sits third in the all-time fastest
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