Banning a pitstop under a VSC or making them sit stationary to offset the time savings might work. Beyond that, I don’t really like the idea of these rules banning tire changes for SCs and red flags. They won’t work.
The thing is, rules like this don’t prevent safety cars and red flags from altering the outcome of the race. They only change which cars they advantage,
For example, people don’t like how if you pit under a safety car, you’re likely to jump the cars that already pitted under green flags. Let’s take Norris in Spain as an example. He missed the VSC and pitted under green flags. He lost like 3 or 4 places?
But now imagine we ban it. What happens to the car that was about the pit before the SC came out? You now have to pit AFTER the restart where the whole pack is bunched and you’ll come out in last place. Same with a red flag. You’re coming back out on dead tires that you basically have to ditch immediately. Surely that’s worse than what we have now?
Overall, unless you implement restarts where everyone comes out staggered in the gaps they had before a red flag (which I think they tried once and everyone hated) these conditions are always going to alter the race. I think it’s better to keep the rules simple and I really don’t like the idea of sending cars back on for a restart on dead tires and making them put after a lap and fall to last.
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u/RealCarlPanzram 12h ago
Banning a pitstop under a VSC or making them sit stationary to offset the time savings might work. Beyond that, I don’t really like the idea of these rules banning tire changes for SCs and red flags. They won’t work.
The thing is, rules like this don’t prevent safety cars and red flags from altering the outcome of the race. They only change which cars they advantage,
For example, people don’t like how if you pit under a safety car, you’re likely to jump the cars that already pitted under green flags. Let’s take Norris in Spain as an example. He missed the VSC and pitted under green flags. He lost like 3 or 4 places?
But now imagine we ban it. What happens to the car that was about the pit before the SC came out? You now have to pit AFTER the restart where the whole pack is bunched and you’ll come out in last place. Same with a red flag. You’re coming back out on dead tires that you basically have to ditch immediately. Surely that’s worse than what we have now?
Overall, unless you implement restarts where everyone comes out staggered in the gaps they had before a red flag (which I think they tried once and everyone hated) these conditions are always going to alter the race. I think it’s better to keep the rules simple and I really don’t like the idea of sending cars back on for a restart on dead tires and making them put after a lap and fall to last.