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Originally Posted by fourWheelDrift
Hardly the same thing though.
Commentry excerpts from a race with fuel stops:
"And Micheal has to stop on lap 32 but David will be in on lap 30, that means Michael will get the undercut and will win the race, now how do I keep the tv audience watching for the next thirty laps?"
and for a race with, shall we say "interesting", tyres:
"Is he going to go flat out and make another stop or is he trying to take this set to the checkered flag?"
"lap time's are dropping off now, is he paying for those first two laps out of the pits when he built the gap that he is now losing"
"and fastest lap on lap 59 and we thought his tyres were finished."
The fuel stop era was the most tedious and predictable in the entire history of formula I cannot understand how anyone can compare that to what we have now, you can call it contrived but at least it is occasionally unpredictable and makes it interesting rather than trivial to read a race as it progresses.
The tyre situation also makes it much more important to pass on track because it leads to the relative pace of the cars changing during the race drivers are much more likely to be behind a slower car and it is more important than ever to pass it.
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One cannot deny that during the pre-2010 'refuelling era' race were ocassionally unpredictable as well. Teams changed their refuelling strategy during the race and had to take tactical decisions too, as they had to react on their opponents and unexpected circumstances, such as changing weather and the Safety Car being deployed.
Both during the so-called refuelling era as wel as during the 2010 season drivers on-track passing was necessary to prevent the race strategy being ruined. In this case the phenomenon called the 'Trully train' worth mentioning.