Might the Monaco Grand Prix function a minimum of two obligatory pit stops in 2025?
that the F1 fee “mentioned proposals for Monaco-specific rules” and that “the fee agreed to extend the numbers of obligatory pit stops within the race. These proposals shall be additional mentioned by the Sporting Advisory Committee within the coming weeks.
F1 groups are presently required to make a minimum of one tire change throughout a Grand Prix throughout dry circumstances. Groups must run a minimum of two of the three tire compounds out there throughout a race, that means if a driver begins the race on the mushy compound tire, he should run both the medium or onerous tire as nicely sooner or later in the course of the occasion.
Monaco has been a supply of consternation for F1 because the winding monitor by the principality doesn’t have a lot room for automobiles to cross one another, particularly as F1 automobiles have gotten considerably bigger lately. The race is without doubt one of the most well-known on the schedule, however qualifying day has outsized significance.
4 of the final six races haven’t featured a single lead change and you must return to the 2016 race to search out the final race with greater than two lead adjustments. There hasn’t been been greater than 4 lead adjustments in a single Monaco Grand Prix for the reason that 2004 race.
The fee’s proposal was unveiled amongst different bulletins on Tuesday forward of the paint scheme reveals for every group Tuesday afternoon. The FIA stated “new, extra stringent, deflection assessments on entrance wing shall be launched from the Spanish Grand Prix onward” and “new, extra stringent, deflection assessments on the rear wing” would begin at first of the season. The quickest groups lately have been accused of skirting the wing rigidity guidelines as a lot as attainable by having the wings transfer and deflect whereas the automobiles are at pace to create extra downforce and scale back drag.