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F1 opts for pit-stop gimmicks over new observe format to avoid wasting Monaco Grand Prix
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F1 opts for pit-stop gimmicks over new observe format to avoid wasting Monaco Grand Prix

By Miles Cooper February 18, 2025
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F1 opts for pit-stop gimmicks over new observe format to avoid wasting Monaco Grand Prix

Components One has been accused of resorting to gimmicks after saying plans to boost the Monaco Grand Prix by forcing drivers to make at the least two pit stops.

Response to the plans from followers on social media ranged from these saying it was an encouraging improvement to these arguing that implementing this modification was proof that the race wanted to be jettisoned altogether.

Criticism has been rising lately that the historic race has turn into pedestrian, with overtaking near unattainable due to the mixture of big, trendy vehicles and the tight, twisting road circuit within the Mediterranean principality.

Final yr’s race was than common. Groups are at present obliged to make use of two completely different compounds of tyre in any given race. An early pink flag allowed the whole discipline to dive into the pits and alter compounds, whereupon they accomplished the remainder of the race on one set of tyres, with minimal overtaking.

Varied options have been proposed to maintain the race related. Writing for Telegraph Sport after final yr’s grand prix, former Jordan and Jaguar designer argued that it , introducing a second hairpin earlier than the Tunnel part on reclaimed land.

“It might most likely solely be an additional 500 metres in whole however it might be one thing that may give you a chance if it was laid out accurately,” Anderson wrote. “That may be my solely tweak to the circuit. The remainder of it is vitally demanding and its traditions needs to be protected. It may be race.”

Purple Bull staff principal Christian Horner, nonetheless, stated it was not doable to change the circuit.

Talking after Tuesday’s F1 Fee assembly in London the place governing physique the FIA, F1 and the ten groups all agreed to “improve the numbers of obligatory pit stops within the race”, Horner argued that the proposed adjustments have been optimistic.

May 24, 2024 Ferrari's Charles Leclerc during practice

“I’ve simply come from that assembly and principally the dialogue was, Monaco you possibly can’t change the format of the circuit,” he stated. “And naturally, as we’ve seen beforehand, notably with these vehicles as large as they’re now, the race may be very a lot dictated by the Saturday. And what we noticed final yr was should you get a pink flag early on and everybody simply places one other tyre on, it’s very static.”

In an announcement, the FIA stated the plan could be “additional mentioned” at F1’s sporting advisory committee, however it’s understood the plan because it stands could be for drivers to need to do two pit stops and use all three obtainable tyre compounds in the course of the Monaco race.

Within the occasion of a moist race, drivers would nonetheless need to do two stops, though tyre alternative could be extra versatile.

“Stating that it’s a must to use probably all three compounds brings in one other aspect, so it turns into a two-stop race,” Horner added. “And will it rain as effectively, it might be a compulsory two-stop as effectively. So it’s distinctive to that race, and it’s actually because of the nature of the circuit.”

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