FittingMechanics wrote: ↑27 May 2025, 09:50
Sevach wrote: ↑27 May 2025, 06:10
Take just one compound to Monaco, C6.
One obligatory pit stop that must be made under green flag conditions, further stops are optional.
That's what i would try.
No mandatory stop. If the tire degrades, we want someone to try and do a race on C6 while others do a pitstop. This is the tire delta that could allow us to see fights on the track.
Making a stop mandatory means you need extra fragile tires to get any type of strategy difference.
Could be, i think both ideas are worth a shot.
But definitely just C6 or a special uber soft tire that melts if you stare at it too hard.
avantman wrote: ↑27 May 2025, 09:02
For sure the most simple fix is just not to count tire change under red flag for one obligatory tire change they have to do. But that should not be unique for Monaco, but same for all grand prix. What many offered in the past - to ban tire changing under red flag was and still is completely silly, crazy proposal. That's why it never moved forward.
The dude who offered that 3 sets of tires rule should be fired immediately, so silly it was. Imagine if we had a red flag on lap 1 like last year, then another red flag 5 laps later allowing everyone to fit another set for free. What would that rule change let alone fix? Completely nothing.
The fix is really that simple - you can change tires under red flag, but that would not be counted as successful obligatory change. Of course there always be days when some drivers get lucky to pit just before RF and gain a lot of race time for free on those that didn't stop. But that's no different then what we have now, where drivers that stop just before red flag get screwed time after time again, and quite often undeservedly so. Of course everyone cannot be happy simultaneously on any particular day, there would be days where some drivers would get screwed. But I think this rule tweak would make things overall better, more fair for competitors and better for us viewers.
Would that fix what RB and Williams were doing? No. There should be another fix, it is a separate issue.
I agree, changing tire under red counting as your tire change is a terrible rule, always has been.
Often it's necessary to change tires with red flags for safety reasons, but it shouldn't count.
I''d go one further and say the obligatory stop must be made under green flag conditions, no SC and VSC, further pitstops could be made under SC and VSC but they won't count(for mandatory stop).
This could work for the whole championship too.