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Originally Posted by S griffin
BTCC Frog makes a good point in his blog that drivers are less willing to pass in other places without DRS. Part of that problem is if they passed before a DRS zone, they would likely be immediately repassed in the DRS
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I also agree with this point. Why try in a difficult part of the track if you can do it with DRS o n the straight. And even more so if you make the pass before the DRS detection line the other guy will get DRS after you took all the risk at a difficult overtaking point. So yes it actually discourages overrakjng elsewhere on the track. The more DRS zones you have, the larger the percentage of the track this applies to.
I also agree with the point made earlier in the thread that F1 should, apart from tuning the DRS zones at the different tracks, also experiment this year with a (sprint) race without DRS. This to learn more from racing this generation of cars completely without DRS which you can't learn from just tuning the zones for reasons stated in the first paragraph.
Good options would be the Silverstone or Brasil sprint races (if it doesn't work out, it will be only the sprint not the main race effected). Or the Monza or Bakuh races, because of the long straights which allows more time for the normal slipstream effect to aid the following car.