F1 MD, Ross Brawn agrees that the driver who claims pole position on Sprint weekend must be officially awarded the honour as opposed to the driver who wins the Sprint 'race'. Reading between the lines of Ross Brawn's comments to the media on Monday in reference to the Sprint format, one cannot help but feel that, after just two trials, the powers that be are already seeking to spice up a format intended to spice up race weekends. One of the criticisms of the format, certainly as far as drivers are concerned, is that despite claiming pole position on Friday for Saturday's race, it is the winner of said race who is officially designated as having won pole and subsequently starts the Grand...
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