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F1 pundit Bernie Collins tears aside Monaco GP rule change with new race concept
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F1 pundit Bernie Collins tears aside Monaco GP rule change with new race concept

By Miles Cooper February 26, 2025
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F1 pundit Bernie Collins tears aside Monaco GP rule change with new race concept

was unimpressed with a introduced for the Monaco Grand Prix in Might – with former driver Jolyon Palmer labelling the alteration a “gimmick.”

The introduced on Wednesday plans to make the Monaco GP a , with a minimal of three totally different tyre units for use by every automotive in an unprecedented change of race rules.

The well-known race on the streets of the principality is for its lack of overtaking alternatives, with Pink Bull’s labelling final 12 months’s race as “boring” – with the top-10 not altering order in any respect from the beginning of the race to the top.

But former Aston Martin engineer and present Sky F1 pundit Collins instantly dissected the information with a concept which might undermine the rule change.

“Final 12 months was a particular case, a one-off outlier,” she mentioned, on protection of this week’s pre-season check in Bahrain. “For my part, we should not overreact to that. Usually, theoretically, a two-stop is the quickest option to do Monaco.

“My preliminary thought upon studying is: if I used to be final, I would cease lap one, cease lap two, haven’t any extra pit stops to do, shut as much as the again of the pack and hope to overhaul after they go in.

“What stops somebody doing their two pit stops then [at the start] and no stops going ahead? We’re attempting to resolve a really particular scenario we noticed final 12 months in Monaco, it’s not what we all the time see.”

In the meantime, Palmer insisted the game “can do higher than that” whereas pit-lane reporter additionally labelled the alteration a “gimmick.”

“It does really feel a bit gimmicky doesn’t it,” Palmer mentioned.

The Monaco GP will have two pit-stops made mandatory this year (Getty Images)

“It’s so site visitors dependent, all of the pit stops will likely be cagey and tempo measured. We could get extra manufactured gaps.

“Final 12 months was a nasty race, however possibly the pink flag guidelines want tweaking as a substitute of two pit-stop guidelines.”

Alex Brundle, commentator and son of ex-F1 racer Martin Brundle, added: “Monaco is a particular race, it doesn’t want a particular regulation.”

gained his house race final 12 months however resulting from an early pink flag – permitting all of the drivers to modify tyres and make their obligatory tyre swap – the order of the top-10 didn’t change.

With only one DRS zone on the primary straight, overtaking is near-impossible across the tight twists and turns of Monaco.

Bernie Collins criticised the new rule (Getty Images for McLaren Automot)

Verstappen, who completed sixth and couldn’t squeeze his Pink Bull previous George Russell forward, mentioned over the radio: “F*** me, that is actually boring… I ought to’ve introduced my pillow”.

He added afterwards: “Total the weekend is absolutely cool, simply the Sunday is slightly bit boring sadly, however the surroundings remains to be nice,” Verstappen mentioned.

“If we will discover a option to race a bit higher, why not? That may be my most popular resolution.”

Lewis Hamilton additionally mentioned of final 12 months’s race: “It was non-eventful. Everybody drove so sluggish. So it did not matter what tyre you had been on. We had been driving seconds off the tempo.

“I do not know what it was like watching, however I’m certain individuals had been falling asleep.”

This 12 months’s Monaco GP will happen on 23-25 Might.

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