dialtone wrote: ↑26 May 2024, 23:52
Seanspeed wrote:There's no way to fix Monaco from a racing perspective. We just have to get used to the fact that overtaking here is outrageously difficult without some luck.
But I dont think F1 as a whole would hurt from having a 'one mandatory pitsop' rule. That's similar enough to what the point of mandating the use of two different compounds in the race is anyways. That comes with the expectation that there will be at least one stop in the race, but obviously we experience the rare situation here where a red flag ruins that at a track where tire wear is super minimal. Mandate at least one stop every race no matter what and it'll change nothing for basically any other race, while ensuring the rare situation like this still gets a bit of strategy intrigue.
I can think of no downsides.
It’s not like normal 1 stop monaco are that exciting anyway. These cars are too big and lack agility, and the tyres burn out too quickly if you tried anyway even here.
Need smaller lighter cars, then it will be fine.
No it wont be fine. Y'all have short memories if you think Monaco was ever an exciting race without rain or safety car shenanigans mixing things up.
A mandatory pitstop would at least have created a bit more intrigue than we had this time.
But overall, no, a straightforward race at Monaco is never gonna be thrilling. Again, we cant 'fix' this. Literally cannot do it. It's a straight up inherent characteristic of the Monaco weekend that qualifying is critical because overtaking during the race will be near impossible. It was genuinely no different in the past.