Should F1 abolish 30-year-old rule?

It is a rule that has been in place for 30 years now in F1, and one a leading pundit feels it is high time should be abolished.

Former F1 driver Martin Brundle, one of the most respected figures in the modern-day paddock, believes that blue flags are no longer required in the sport. They are his biggest bug-bear.

Blue flags were introduced in 1995 to aid a driver progressing through the field from being held up by backmarkers.

Brundle, however, feels they are now outdated and that drivers are skilled enough to complete an overtake without the assistance of the marshals waving the blue flags in their favour.

“I think we should ban blue flags,” said Brundle. “Drivers have lost the skills of working and managing the traffic as we used to do. I quite like that.

"Now everybody has to jump out the way, like school kids when the big boys come through in the faster cars."

The counter-argument is that blue flags remain an effective way of managing a grand prix and preventing incidents from taking place between the leaders and those not in their race.

So, the question we are asking you today is, is Brundle right? Should blue flags be abolished?

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