Romain Grosjean believes the discussion surrounding blue flags in Formula One wouldn't be happening if the performance gap between the top three teams and midfield was smaller.
Grosjean was deemed to have ignored blue flags -- which are waved to tell lapped cars to move out the way when they are impeding race leaders -- while battling the Williams of Sergey Sirotkin at the Singapore Grand Prix. The pair's battling caused eventual race winner Lewis Hamilton to lose a significant amount of time and nearly cost the Mercedes driver the lead of the race to Max Verstappen.
When asked about the incident surrounding blue flags in Singapore, Grosjean said: "Let's have a look at the bigger picture and the problem is not the blue flags, the problem is that the six cars are so much faster than the rest of the field that halfway through the race they need blue flags.