Monaco GP: New pit-stop rules analysed by Martin Brundle following Lando Norris victory at street circuit | F1 News

It was eight days turbulent Lando Norris and his championships in the world championship.

It has placed a few demons and F1 paddock on the bed with huge excesses in IMola and the exciting pole in Monaco under severe pressure from Charles Leclerc, Oscar Piasstri, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. He has followed this with a largely uncompromising engine to win the streets despite a lot of chaos and challenges.

There are now only three points between him and his McLaren PiaSSTRI teammate, where the race represents the completion of the first third of the season. The PiaSSTRI had what for him on a slightly wild weekend, with a front wing link with the barriers at St.

But the Australian young man is still registering another platform, which, with the exception of one rainy angle in the backyard of Melbourne, means that he would have won a cup in every season this season. Its balance is transferred to 34 consecutive weekends of points.

Charles Licerrick apparently came on the weekend that his current car had a weak performance in the slow corners, and thus he warned others of “not betting on me.” In fact, he led every training session, but he missed part of the fracture and this would limit him to the second place in the race, as it is often in the story in Monaco.

Like last year, Red Bull struggled at Verstapen on restrictions and around the emirate’s limits, relatively, but still leads the wheels as usual.

The fourth place will start because Lewis Hamilton unintentionally prevented him in the qualifiers after receiving wrong information from his engineer, and he will take painfully a network of three places in seventh place, which restricted Lewis to have to play the role of the team in the race and the fifth and unit.

“I was surprised to neglect the rules of stopping the hole.”

For decades, we knew in Monaco that the matter of qualification on Saturday is largely decided as a result of the race, unless there is rain,/or safety cars and red marks. This is the case, and even 33 years ago in 1992, Nigel Manzel was unable to pass Erton Cena even though his superior tires suffered from a late hole.

I finished fifth in this race, so remember the challenges well. In 1989, I also remember passing a lot of cars in Brabham, but I had a great tire feature after I had to drill for two minutes for a new battery under my seat, and only after that I passed cars because I threw completely caution on the wind and attacked everyone only to return to sixth place, somehow survived from all the origins. But at that time, you can also pass people if they miss the transmission of gears, and this day cannot happen.

Therefore, let’s do not claim that the race issues in Monaco are limited to this current generation of broad, digital, not analog cars. Perhaps 60 years ago, cars could exceed Spindly, but the race results for several decades at the time were dominated by weak reliability and disruption in the least developed cars.

Last year in Monaco, there was a red mark of a hard accident for the first time. All surviving drivers can change their tires in drilling, thus complying with the organization to use different rubber compounds without losing the course of the track, then racing to the end without another stop, provided that they all pass slowly enough. Top 10 on the network ended with this precise arrangement.

It was decided to try to do something for the race spices and with a large consultation between the teams, the FIA, and the F1, the specific solution was to have a list of Monaco that incurred two drilling stations, thus using three different groups of dry tires. And two stop even if it rains.

I will not criticize anyone to try in good faith to improve the offer. However, I was a little surprised that he was not a telescope of one of those stations that you should take, for example, half the distance, or perhaps earlier. It was clear from the beginning that some of the difference in the back of the field might also move through its stations relatively early without losing anything, and that those in the front of the field will take their second stop late to make the opportunity window wider regarding safety cars and red flags.

“Slow pace is not what F1 represents”

It was also clear immediately that the difference could use one car as a sacrifice slowly driving to help their other car get a 21 -second gap necessary to stop the hole.

This is what happened to a large extent, although the bulls and Williams are particularly willing to race and Williams to slow down one of their cars was very disturbing. But you cannot blame them – both cars got the world championship points after a very strong qualification performance.

I realized very early in the race that everything we were talking about in the comment, after Lando Norris survived the fear of the first angle when the front brake lock was the extent of its peak by discussing some drivers and discussing the endless hole.

Now, of course, it is very customary for the leader to go slowly, and in fact, all 19 cars are in the early stages here, so that no person has a stopping window for the hole, before creating it at some point to create the opportunity of their drilling.

Instead, we saw selected cars four seconds of a frustrating waiting list behind them. Not beautiful, or impressive, but effective for some. But it barely represents F1.

Mercedes had a curious strategy with her car, which was recruited in the second half of the field after a qualifying accident from Kimi Antonelli, and a mechanical issue of George Russell. In the race, they seemed for a long time to have their heads in the sand around any stop at all, and Russell retreated on 64 and 70 rolls, and Antoni at 71 and 73 rolls, from 78. Williams Rodlock.

Unfortunately for him, he obtained a campaign through the punishment that cost 20 seconds, and FIA had this saying:

“Status like this is expected to take place in the Grand Prix of Monaco, all the teams were informed before the race by the race director (at the request of the referees) that the rulers carefully look at a deliberate departure of the path in the 10th floor to overcome the car or the slow train. Punishment is more than 10 seconds.

Despite the punishment, it still occupies the eleventh position, and so on the points.

When we look at the results after all the noise and discussion before the race around the dual base, nothing has changed greatly. Lewis Hamilton Ferrari, punishment for the network, passed the ISCK Hadjar race bull, which is impressive in the hole stopping stage. Unfortunately, Fernando Alonso, from Aston Martin, failed and retired the car. Both these things have happened anyway.

Along with Racing Bulls ‘Hadjar and Lawam Lawson at the sixth and eighth, Williams’ Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz on the ninth and tenth, another impressive performance was EspanBan Ocon who ended hanging if it was under the seventh radar in Haas, without any assistance from a collective road basin.

“The experiment has not succeeded”

The two experience did not succeed. We simply manage expectations for the race day, and we do our best to reduce a little overcoming if possible, or realize that the Monaco qualifiers is one of the most special hours in F1 or any sports season, or there is no race, and it is not an option.

The fact is that the planning of the path dictates this problem, and the space available to create a long straight or extensive areas that are not available. Even so, very wide tracks still contain only one racing line of rubber. My son Alex had a tongue in the cheek, and a solution when suggested to each one -Joker card driver to play by evaporating across the land of the banned man in Chican, as George Russell did, and the ability to maintain this new position and move to the bottom of the road. This would simply praise all drivers.

There is no doubt that everything that changed in Formula 1 will have unintended consequences, it is the nature of the monster.

Meanwhile, McLaren was running in the foreground, Ferrari, and one quietly Red Bull through all the chaos to run their own races, Lewis Hamilton in fifth place is the last runner behind 51 seconds behind Norris.

There was a nervous stage for McLaren when Norris caught up again to the leader Versaben, who was hanging in his 50 -rp tires in the hope of a seller of red science, before swinging for the second time in the lap 77.

During that time, Ferrari of Leclerc was all over Norris, but he carried his nerves and on the last lap, with Verstaben recently appeared from his way, unleashed the fastest roll in the race to confirm his re -discovered confidence.

It is the Spanish GP at the end of next week, which is a completely different challenge to teams, cars and drivers.

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