Two DRS-Zones as of Montreal

[MrBlacky]

FIA is going to introduce two DRS zones in the future:

German: http://www.motorsport-total.com/f1/news ... 52047.html

English: http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/2601 ... -valencia/

What do you think of this?

[Tamburello]

I don't know what Whiting has been watching but it was clear that in Turkey the DRS was overly effective and thus we need a shortening of its activation zone, not the opposite. This could be alleviated somewhat if a passed driver is allowed to comeback at his passer on the second straight.

[Fil]

These quotes concern me..

"..because they have to be consecutive straights. It becomes more complicated the further apart they are because there's more likelihood of a change in position of the drivers."

"There will be one detection zone. The initial detection will be after Turn 10, then they can have another go (on the main straight)."

In other words, the following car has the ability to use the DRS on two straights in a row.
With only 1 detection zone, the following car will still have the ability to use the DRS on the second straight, regardless of a successful pass the car on the first DRS zone.

Hugely flawed in my eyes.

[WhiteBlue]

Good work on behalve of the FiA. They ought to increase the capability of the system without risking bugs in the races.

The other question is how much DRS activation should apply at each race. That is something that needs to be balanced for each individual race track.

Generally I think that the teams and the FiA are doing a good job on the DRS considering that nobody is keen to attack the underlying problem of too much drag and turbulence. It would be better to cure the problem - for instance by ground effect tunnels - than doctoring the symptoms. But the political force seem to make that impossible.

[myurr]

This is going to be a disaster in my opinion. The defending driver will have to go off line on the first straight to defend, leaving the two cars running incredibly close anyway. On the second straight the attacker will just breeze straight past. I hope I'm wrong but I can't see this as being a good thing.

[beelsebob]

This is going to be a disaster in my opinion. The defending driver will have to go off line on the first straight to defend, leaving the two cars running incredibly close anyway. On the second straight the attacker will just breeze straight past. I hope I'm wrong but I can't see this as being a good thing.

Given that it's montreal, I'm less convinced. If it were arranged either side of the wall of champions, you'd be able to defend on the first straight, and one or other would have to get out of it on the chicane.

I don't think they can arrange it round the hairpin, because the second straight is just too long to have the activation zone start right at the start.

[n_anirudh]

If two cars are within 1 sec on the back straight and the following car makes the overtake, and now the car which was ahead becomes the following car and repasses on the following straight..

Good entertainment ...yes...but the over all effect is somewhat nullified..esp if it happens in Cannada

its gonna be the same in Monza as well...

[beelsebob]

If two cars are within 1 sec on the back straight and the following car makes the overtake, and now the car which was ahead becomes the following car and repasses on the following straight..

Good entertainment ...yes...but the over all effect is somewhat nullified..esp if it happens in Cannada

its gonna be the same in Monza as well...

But this won't happen – as someone pointed out up thread, there's only one detection zone, so the car that had made the pass would be allowed to use DRS in the second activation zone, not the car that is now behind.

[i70q7m7ghw]

We might see the lead car stamping on the brakes just before they enter the detection zone...

My concern is the detection zones seem to be moving further away from the activation zone. So we are seeing drivers get a 'beep' but by the time they've got to the activation zone, they've already made the pass and they just get to fly even further up the road. The activation zone should be either the corner before the activation zone, or the corner prior to that.