chrstphrln wrote: ↑27 May 2024, 13:14
I just wrote it in another thread.
I can certainly understand that many people didn't like this tactical race, but just as many don't like the recurring pit stop lottery under the safety car.
Kind of an incident that completely turns the race on its head.
On the calls for more compulsory pit stops:
There was a mandatory pit stop, there was a red flag.
What if there are two red flags?
Should we then introduce three stops the following year?
There are things that just happen.
Monaco produces exciting chaos one year, boredom one year and perhaps boring chaos the next.
This year, the boredom after the crashes was extremely pleasant for me.
I'm also glad that it didn't come to the feared pit stop chaos during an SC phase.
It's horrible when a dozen or more cars pull into the pits and you have to wait ages until the slot is free to pull out.
Fortunately, we were spared this lottery.
Look at the F2 race. The different strategies and the mandatory pit stop created excitement there and in the end the VSC produced an unexpected winner.
A good race despite the few overtaking manoeuvres.
The F1 race could have been the same. But it wasn't. But that doesn't mean you have to rebuild the principality or downsize the cars.
Even if the latter is necessary in any case!