The Monaco Grand Prix has been an anachronism for many years. Overtaking on the observe has lengthy been borderline unattainable, and it by some means turned even tougher when System 1 made its automobiles 200mm wider eight years in the past.
However the clamour for F1 to do one thing in regards to the processional nature of racing in Monaco grew louder after the acute circumstances of final yr’s race.
A primary-lap shunt led to a crimson flag, throughout which just about each driver accomplished their obligatory tyre change. Charles Leclerc was due to this fact in a position to nurse his tyres all the way in which dwelling, at occasions a number of seconds off the tempo, with no life like prospect of anybody behind having the ability to assault him.
“We should not let that occur once more,” F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali declared afterwards. “We should anticipate such eventualities higher and canopy them with the principles,” he mentioned, including F1’s guidelines “are typically too sophisticated.”
This week the FIA revealed its repair for the issue. In a extremely uncommon transfer, it’s imposing a particular rule for the Monaco Grand Prix alone. Whereas one obligatory tyre change is enforced in every single place else, in Monaco drivers should change tyres twice, although they may nonetheless solely have to make use of two totally different compounds. In an extra change, in Monaco the requirement to alter tyres twice will nonetheless apply even when they use intermediate or wet-weather tyres.
Has the FIA hit on the best resolution to enhance racing in Monaco? Do extra pit stops equal higher races? And may F1 resort to particular guidelines for some races? Give your verdict beneath.
For
Forcing two pit stops is essentially the most life like manner to enhance the racing. It’s straightforward to name for modifications to the circuit, however it’s not sensible with the restricted house obtainable in Monaco.
There is no such thing as a hurt in having particular guidelines for some races, and Monaco already does. Its race is run to 260 kilometres as a substitute of the standard 305.
Requiring drivers to make two pit stops will guarantee they’ve another probability than normal to make up positions.
Towards
It is a knee-jerk over-reaction to final yr’s uncommon race. A greater repair was attainable: F1 might have merely decreed that tyre modifications made throughout stoppages don’t depend because the obligatory swap.
Including particular guidelines for some races creates useless complexity – but extra guidelines to clarify and perceive.
However most significantly, a second obligatory pit cease gained’t create actual racing on-track, solely within the pit lane.
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I say
The purpose of a race is to get to the end as rapidly as attainable. So I don’t agree F1 ought to have a compulsory tyre change rule to start with – it’s arbitrary and pointless.
If one obligatory pit cease is dangerous, two is worse. The very fact it’s being imposed for one race solely underlines what a contrivance that is and, by extension, F1 is popping itself into.
Whether or not it’s going to ‘work’ or not is irrelevant, nevertheless it appears extra prone to incentivise groups to attempt weird methods within the hope of getting fortunate, or utilizing one automotive to carry up the chasing pack to profit the opposite.
As System E’s recurrently wonderful races in Monaco present, it’s not the venue’s fault that F1 has constantly chosen to alter its guidelines in such a manner because it make racing there unattainable. F1 ought to both change its guidelines (and subsequent yr’s look like a small step in the best route on this regard) or settle for that that is one race the place the grand prix issues lower than the spectacle of qualifying, which is at all times a sight to savour in Monaco.
You say
Has the FIA discovered the easiest way to enhance System 1 races in Monaco by forcing drivers to alter tyres twice? Solid your vote beneath and have your say within the feedback.
Do you agree having two obligatory pit stops is the easiest way the FIA might enhance F1 racing in Monaco?
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