But Alonso said the FIA had made that decision because Baku and Miami were two of the races where overtaking was easiest last year. And that the Red Bulls could overtake well before the first corner using DRS. “If you take one car, it was too long, and if you take another, it was too short. “I would prefer if we could race without DRS but that is not possible,” he said. Is it that the DRS zone is too short, are the cars not good enough to follow closely? “The cars are too heavy, they are too stiff so you can’t really run a kerb to find a little bit different line.

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