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[Sergej]

Piastri able to improve on 7th lap on soft.

Another try for Max, let's see.

[f1isgood]

Piastri able to improve on 7th lap on soft.

That's basically like 3 tenths gain just due to fuel loads but interesting.

[Sergej]

pace on soft not amazing, let's see in quali

[f1isgood]

Yeah wouldnt be surprised if teams just do Q3 runs on mediums. Even the gains are very marginal.

[Cs98]

What's the remaining tyre allocation? Sick of Pirelli bringing these soft tyres that don't even last a lap and have no race relevance. The only team that benefits is Macca, and it's not like they need the help

[Bill]

Why are they tempering with tire pressure .drives who were doing well on friday are now struggling

[Paa]

It looked really good on mediums, pace for front row.
Nobody looked particularly good on softs, but I think Red Bull is relatively weaker on those vs others. (compared to medium)

[f1isgood]

Doesn't look like we will have thermal degradation. So pole if possible and pray like Suzuka/Jeddah.

[euv2]

What's the remaining tyre allocation? Sick of Pirelli bringing these soft tyres that don't even last a lap and have no race relevance. The only team that benefits is Macca, and it's not like they need the help

Yeah, the rest just fall off with softer compounds. The point of softer compounds was to bring back 2 pitstops but the C6 is just not a race tyre, and teams fall back to C4 and C5 single stop strategy. At that point it's better to bring harder compounds and at least let all the teams push.

[f1isgood]

What's the remaining tyre allocation? Sick of Pirelli bringing these soft tyres that don't even last a lap and have no race relevance. The only team that benefits is Macca, and it's not like they need the help

Yeah, the rest just fall off with softer compounds. The point of softer compounds was to bring back 2 pitstops but the C6 is just not a race tyre, and teams fall back to C4 and C5 single stop strategy. At that point it's better to bring harder compounds and at least let all the teams push.

At Monaco, we have mandates two stops right?

[Cs98]

What's the remaining tyre allocation? Sick of Pirelli bringing these soft tyres that don't even last a lap and have no race relevance. The only team that benefits is Macca, and it's not like they need the help

Yeah, the rest just fall off with softer compounds. The point of softer compounds was to bring back 2 pitstops but the C6 is just not a race tyre, and teams fall back to C4 and C5 single stop strategy. At that point it's better to bring harder compounds and at least let all the teams push.

Ironically the softer compounds do the opposite of encouraging a two stop. For the two stop to be viable it usually requires the soft tyre to be a viable race tyre. A tyre that gives you 15 laps of good pace before falling off, not 3 laps. If they really want a two stop they should just mandate that you need to use all compounds during a race. It's no more artificial than the current system.

[f1isgood]

I think the idea behind this whole two stop thing is also that over a year there's a higher chance that some teams messes up one of their pitstops, leading to a "surprise" winner. Expect some funny things at Monaco already given the narrow pitlane.

[Sergej]

Only 1 medium left, no way it will be used in quali.

[Cs98]

Only 1 medium left, no way it will be used in quali.

Why not? If they can't figure out the soft tyre I'd absolutely give the medium a go in Q3. Track position will be more important than a couple of laps on the tyre for the race.

[Emag]

Only 1 medium left, no way it will be used in quali.

Why not? If they can't figure out the soft tyre I'd absolutely give the medium a go in Q3. Track position will be more important than a couple of laps on the tyre for the race.

Depends on how easily the top cars can detach from the midfield. McLaren could easily attempt an undercut if they find space early on to do so.