Two-stop experiment doesn’t fix F1 Monaco procession problem

Monaco – Formula 1‘s Two-Stop Experiment at The Monaco Grand Prix Underlined what the sporting about it is most famous race: the confines of the 94-year-year-year-old circuit are to the right to allow genuine racing.

Adding a Compulsory Second Pit Stop with Never Going to Change That Fact, But It Did has The Potential to District From It. Arguably it is suicided in that task by providing a more dynamic race than the previous year, but with just one legal overtake in 78 laps, the fundamental issue with the monaco as an F1 vas the toe to See.

“You can get race here,” reigning champion Max Verstappen Said after finishing Fourth. “It does not matter what you do; One Stop, 10 stops. Even at the end, I was in the left, my tires with noadays and you still can get pass. Nowadays with an F1 car, you can [only] Pass an F2 Car Around Here. I get [the mandatory two-stop strategy]But I don’t think it’s worked.

“We wore almost doing mario kart. We have to install bits on the car and maybe you can through Bananas Around! Slippery Surface!”

Whether the Two-Stop Rule was a Worldwhile Experiment was up for debate on Sunday Evening. George russellWho spent a large part of the race staring at the race of the willers cars ahead of him, was adamant it had added.

“We definitely need to have a real think about what the solution is here in Monaco,” russelle. “I Appreciate Trying Something this year for Two Stops, but clearly it did not work at all.”

There was an element of jeopardy in the final stages, as verstappen, who had made only one of his two two stops up until lap 77, clung on to the left in the hope a later Second Tire Change under a Red Flag, Retain the Lead and Sneak Out a Victory. Arguably, that made the last 20 laps compulsory viewing, even if the sting in the tail never materialized.

“I would say it was an improvement, it was strategically more interesting, there was more jeopardy to it,” Red Bull Team Principal Christian Horner Said. “Certainly better than where there was just a process, but the fundamental problem is you cannot overtake here and you can drive Around or four seconds of the pace.”

From Lando Norris‘S likes in the race-wining mclen, it was a nerve-wracking experience as he kept to a relatively conventional strategy by making his strategy on laps 19 and 50. Error all race, but still ran the risk of having his first win on the streets of monaco snatched away by an unforetowned red flag.

“It is a lot more scary for me,” he said after verstappen’s last strategy also backed Him in the ferrari of Charles Leclerc Behind. “I wish it was a one-stop, it would be a lot more chilled. It is not for me! But the rules are not made for me, they not made for us to enjoy it more or whatever. They are made more entertainment for the viewers.

The lack of overtaking created different issues in the midfield as time quickly identified the position their two drivers to work toogether. The second driver would be asked by the pit wall to back up the pack, thereby creating a gap for the seistor car ahead to the pit stops and not lose position.

The trend of driving deliberately slow was started by Liam Lawson WHILE RUNING IN NINTH PLACE, THREE PLACES BEHIND HIS RACKING Bulls Teammate Isack Hadjar. By LAPPING CONSISTLY TWO to Four Seconds Off His Teammate, Lawson Held Up The Faster Williams and Mercedes Cars Behind, Which Allowed Hadjar to Cover his Full Quota of Pit Stops on Lap 14 and Lap 19 Still emerge ahead of lawson and the chasing pack.

Hadjar Lost a Place To Lewis hamilton In the process, but the superior pace of the ferrari over the racing bull mante there was always a risk the seven-time world champion would be undercuting or overcuting in the pit stops.

Williams, which failed to unleash the superior performance of it’s cars to move ahead of the racing bulls, then felt obliged to employ similar tactics to keep the two mercends drivers and Some Antonelli And bay.

From lap 25 to lap 40, Carlos Sainz Drove Multiple Seconds Off the Pace of His Teammate Alex Albon AHEead, which created a gap for albon to make his two pit stops in on laps 32 and 40. Once Albon had completed his mandatory stops, He Let Sainz Through on Lap 43 and there fever by Holding Up the Mercedes Drivers so that Sainz could make his stops on laps 48 and 53.

Russell became fed up with the tactics on lap 50 and cut the nouvelle chicane to pass albon, knowing full well he will get a penalty in the process. The stewards together a dim view of Russel’s tactics and slapped him with a drive-throgh-a driver would be normalized for Going off track and gaining an audvantage – But russell still benefited from the Illegal overtake and finished 11th.

“I didn is really care [about the penalty] Because I was out of the point, “Russell Said.” [after an electrical issue put an end to his qualifying]And I just say, ‘screw it, I want to enjoy Monaco.’

“I want to enjoy this track full gas. It is one of the best circuits in the world and the last 25 laps was the most fun i’ve had all weeks. Limits, testing myself, and Ironically, if I didn it do this, I would have finished maybe 15th or 16th. “

At the checkered flag, willims team principal james vowels and his former boss at Mercedes, Toto Wolff, Exchanged the Following Text Messages.

Vowles: “I’m sorry. We had no choice given what happened ahead.”

Wolff: “We know.”

Although this year’s Two-Stop Regulation Made the Tactic of Slowing to help a tumate more obvious, and in some cases more extreme, it is not new, the sterets of monaco.

“In the past, in 2019, lando do it for me, and I finished p6, with mclaren,” Sainz sa. “So, this has been going on for years now, Around Monaco, and it’s allowed.

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“Today, I suffered it [behind Lawson]then I benefited from it [ahead of the Mercedes]. I ultimately just come away from the sport to allow you to be able to do this, or to find a solution to how Monaco [can prevent] This. “

Sainz was driving so slowly at times during sunday’s race that he even had the mental capacy to think about how F1 should solve the issue.

“I had time in the car to think about it, because I was driving so slow, boyind and in front of people, that I was like Like, ‘What is we do for this not to be allowed?’ “Ultimately, you driving two or three seconds off the pace that the car can do. You are ultimately manipulating the race, and manipulating the outcome a bit.

“So, we should find a way that this cannot be done in the future, because I have the same that every year, people are going to do it more and more, and it is a trend the Last Few year. Sense, the two stops, if anythrough, helped to maybe spice up around the pit Windows, to have Two Pit Stops, But It Made us has to do the slow driving twice, which is not a very good thing for the. Sport. “

Wolff believes one solution could be to set a minimum lap time that the drivers have to stick to. A similar rule is surely applied in qualifying to stop cars creating Dangerous Situations During and Out-Laps, but it would come with more complications in a race.

“I think what we can look at the specific regulations so that there are a maximum of backoff [in pace] That you can have, “Wolff Said.” That would be probably created a little bit more of a close field. Does it improve the overtaking? I don’t think that’s feasible. “

Which brings F1 back to the fundamental issue with Monaco: a lack of overtaking operations and a layout that the current cars can get race on. It’s not new, but horner believes its time to address it head on.

“I think the only way to be found in the form of overtaking is to create a bit more braking area, Ether on the exit of the tunnel or only one if any of the creating Somewhere, we should realy investigate it, “The red bull team principal saaid. “The cars are so big now that you just have a chance to get accompanying.

“I think every time with the time ultimately, it is an iconic and history circuit but if you look at how many money has changed, how much land they are reco in the 72 Appearance Here, I don’t think you just just needed to be one.

“The race was pretty much done [in qualifying]And we’ve introduced another dynamic with the pit stop, which ultimately for the top 10 other than the retirement Nobody Really Changed Position. “

Russell, perhaps still reeling from the frustration of the race, offered up one other possibility. It is an option f1 would like to be new adopt and an option purists would like to be refuse to accident – double down on the one day at Monaco that can be missed: Qualifying.

“Do we accept that there be no race and it’s a qualifying race,” Russell Asked. “You do one [qualifying session] On Saturday, one on Sunday. And the guy who qualifies pole gets some point. He gets a little trophy, and the one on Sunday Get More Points.

“Because that’s what we love most.