The Thong thang

Insect?

Just minutes away from the first practice session at Albert and the thongs have thrown a spanner in the works. The drivers have decided they can no longer see the START lights clearly through the thong which could throw the get-away into chaos. So the director of racing, Charlie Whiting has decided to lower the light gantry and not only at Albert Park but every track on the circuit.
There had been a second rack of lights further down the grid previously put in place due to the higher wing settings of the cars a few years ago which are now redundant due to new wing height regs so wise old Charlie has repositioned these a few meters further ahead of the main gantry so all should now be hunky dory.
Another issue that our man Dan has put forward is that the plebs will now have difficulty in seeing the drivers helmets because of their halo's making it hard for fans to determine which team member is driving which car. Hairy Dan was pretty vague about the old way we used to decide which car was which with a teams second car/driver carrying a day-glow green camera and the lead driver not.

“The only thing I could think of was putting something on the halo to distinguish team-mates,” said Ricciardo. “Is it the camera or the rollhoop or whatever that sometimes one driver has yellow so you can kind of tell a little bit there? “Maybe do something between team-mates with the halos just to give fans a little bit of an idea who’s behind the wheel because you don’t really see the helmet now.”

I can just picture Kimi in the Ferrari sporting a day-glow green thong.. come on!! Will we even see the thong back in 2019?