With a higher pitlane speed limit, drivers would lose less time during a pitstop. This calculation could encourage teams to try a strategy with more stops during a race.
“Improve the show”…run over a mechanic…
For safety reasons, a tiny bit too fast in the pitlane was punished heavily. Now it turns out that even 20km/h faster could still be safe?
Approaching the pitstop area 20km/h faster and going to a full stop can be dangerous as well.
I predict a heavy accident within 2 years.
For safety reasons, a tiny bit too fast in the pitlane was punished heavily.
Yes, that was to prevent people toying with the rules, and no matter what the speed limit is it should be heavily enforced.
But I agree we’ll probably see more incidents and injuries given the close calls we’ve had so far. I’m all for increasing the limit as long as there are better protections around the people in the pit lane.
Early analysis showed that if the pitlane speed limit is raised by 20km/h – so potentially from 80km/h to 100km/h – then it would reduce the pitstop times by around five seconds.
Australia, Monaco, Zandvoort and Singapore to cap at 80km/h from 60km/h
Interesting… but winning or loosing a race in the pits, is as exciting as a race managed by tyres.
I think they’re hoping the change will make taking an extra stop less costly, we could see more cars charging through the field with fresh tires. The problem is that if you make the pit stop cost too low everyone will come in and there will be no differing strategies.
Unless they restrict the number of tires you can use in a weekend…
I don’t think that a great idea. It’s a pit lane with people and car with high risk of incident ( missing wheel, snap from to much power or collision between car). Enhanced show by security compromise never been a good thing IMO.
They do take safety pretty seriously in general, I would hope that they wouldn’t be suggesting this if they weren’t confident that all their other procedures would mitigate any increased risk.
My thought exactly, and surely there are other changes they could look at before literally rolling back safety standards.
You can have jeopardy and safety, in fact F1 should be a demonstration of exactly that.
We could also add chicanes to pit straights! /s
There’s no such thing as pure racing, so this I think is a good idea. Plenty of pit entrances and exits are quite long, we could have two speed limits also. The 60 in the garage area already seems too high to me however, we already see a lot of close releases imo. But purelli seem unwilling to actually go mad with the tyres to support race strategy other than 1 stops, so this could help with race strategies
I also like rally cross joker laps though, what a heathen
“Max, box box. Box box. DRS available for entering the pitlane”
This is a Trump type change. Not smart.
This makes as much sense as putting speed bumps on the track.
