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19 Apr 2018, 13:59 (Ref:3816502) | #2751 | |
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I'm so grateful that pit stop fanatics are an absolute minority in F1's fan base...
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I certainly wouldn't class myself as a pit stop fanatic (although I presume that is supposed to be a derogatory description), but in the modern restricted era where the performance of the cars have been pretty much equalised, having different tyre performances, strategies and grip lives can make the races far more interesting than they would have been had the tyre performances also all been equalised!
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that for me as well Viva.
wouldnt want to see a mandated minimum number of stops though. i think that would just result in everyone adopting the same strategy. having to use two different compound, all be it contrived, does work for me in that, well so far this year at least, we are seeing teams really guessing who is going to 1-stop vs 2-stop. it opens things up tremendously. i would even go so far as to say i hope we can see a race where a team finds a way to use the hypersofts in some sort of 3-stop strategy that can win a race....maybe i am a pitstop fanatic. |
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19 Apr 2018, 16:37 (Ref:3816527) | #2754 | |
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ban pit stops and bring 2 or 3 more tyres companies, that would mix things up
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You would get back to the situation where some teams are being paid to use a company's rubber, whilst other teams are having to pay the supplier. Just like before, it would lead to a tyre war which just ends in escalating costs. Furthermore, at least one of the companies that could produce tyres for F1 has made it a clear condition for a possible return to F1 that they would only do so as the single supplier. For the reasons stated above, I would imagine that all the producers would also stipulate the same condition. And think about it logically. If all the teams were forced to buy their tyres from a list of producers, then what is to stop them walking away from a contract with company A when it is obvious to all that the tyres from companies B, C and/or D are far superior, and all other teams followed suit. |
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19 Apr 2018, 17:15 (Ref:3816534) | #2757 | ||
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I wish people could make up their mind about tyres. One minute they last too long, and the next moment everyone is complaining that they only last for a few laps.
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A bit like the Chapman mantra, what you really want, I suppose, is tyres that can be leant on for the whole race by the ideal car, but which fall apart on the cool-down lap. But that’s not realistic.
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and after all that, Ferrari would just end up ruining for it everyone by forming essentially a bespoke tire deal with one of the suppliers.
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19 Apr 2018, 18:16 (Ref:3816542) | #2760 | |
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they bring in the halo for reasons of safety but by far the most dangerous aspect of F1 are pitstops , why not bring in a minimum time say 10 seconds and with the pressure off at least the mechanics should be at much less risk.
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Motor racing full stop has the potential to be dangerous. Cars going at 200 mph, whizzing round corners, and so on could lead to danger. Maybe a person waving a red flag should walk in front of each car which should be kept at a responsible distance behind the flag bearer. |
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Here is an attempt to get across how everything we collectively ask for is, at best, hard to achieve. Close lap times, enough performance difference for overtaking. Quick cars, simple cars. Design freedom, cheap cars.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/feature...t-a-perfect-f1 It isn’t clear what people actually want. Some know what the answer is, but aren’t sure what the question is. So I suppose all suggestions are good ones, but it is hard to achieve. (Oh and paywall article, world is evil, yawn, etc...) |
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Through all this that is the one thing that bothers me. When we get into suggestions that work against the driver and team doing the best job. So reverse grids and things like that I do not like. It can become closer, it can become harder to manage all the variables and hence provide more opportunity, there can even be a little luck, but on the day the best driver, car and team who make the right decisions should win. Even if sometimes that also mean we get the same winner a lot because they do a much better job consistently. Start to actually target the best and penalise them and that is a huge turn off for me. |
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I am surprised that Pirelli actually continues to be the supplier TTTT. They are given a tyre spec by the promotors and deliver on that spec and then cop it in the neck because they delivered what was wanted. What is the problem with that? It is certainly not Pirelli's fault for delivering a product on spec.
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20 Apr 2018, 06:20 (Ref:3816603) | #2767 | ||
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If we all agreed all the time then that's the real yawn imo.
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20 Apr 2018, 07:54 (Ref:3816612) | #2768 | ||
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And had the Ferrari automated system not given a false green light, thinking as it did that the yet to be removed sticking wheel had already been changed then there would have been even less risk of injury. The damaged mechanic/wheel-changer would have done his job and been out of the way.
A lot to be said for the traditional lollypop man with real eyes being better than an electric sensor that assumes the car has been stopped for two seconds and therefore the wheel has 'obviously' been changed..... Less people involved may slow the process but the intensity and drama is still there. Mind you that comes from one who remembers pit stops and tyre changers with hammers and eared spinners and fuel sloshed into funnels. |
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They need to do something, these unsafe releases have happened too often so far. Personally I feel they should rid of this two compound rule and make it so the drivers have the option to run non-stop. Sort of ruins a close battle sometimes when you remember they have to pit
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20 Apr 2018, 09:48 (Ref:3816628) | #2770 | ||
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Bring back side skirts and full ground effects ala late 1970s
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No chance, skirts were banned for safety reasons and quite right too
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20 Apr 2018, 21:42 (Ref:3816696) | #2774 | ||
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It's not necessarily unrealistic. Generally, racing tyres gradually taper off from the very first lap but the MGs (Brazilian-made, I think) that we used in Formula Rotax karts a few years back had an amazingly flat performance before they eventually fell off the cliff. We used to do two meetings on a set, could set a fastest lap right at the end of the second meeting, then bring them out for testing the next weekend and they would immediately go off 0.5sec/lap each lap.
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That's not true. When Adrian Newey worked for March in the '80s on their CART/IndyCar project, he did a lot to develop ground effect minus skirts. He penned the March 85C, which won the 500 and the Constructors' Cup in '85, as well as the March 86C, which also won the 500 and the Constructors' Cup in '86 and '87. Subsequent CART/IndyCar programmes run by Lola, Penske, Reynard and Swift, all used ground effect cars. With the unification of Champ Car with the IRL and the adoption of the Dallara DW12, before the Chevrolet and Honda aero-kit period, that too was a ground effect car. The DW12 or IR 12, in it's current incarnation with the Universal Aero-kit, is a ground effect car.
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