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Topic Started: May 11 2008, 11:55 AM (1,401 Views)
Brave_Lee_Flea
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safc_fan89,May 11 2008
05:36 PM
It's not a demand from Bridgestone that this happens, surely. Just another failed method of trying to spice up the racing! It would only work if there was a 7 to 8 tenths a lap difference rather than 2 to 3 tenths.

I think it's better for everyone if drivers can't do one-stoppers. It's probably the dullest strategy you can use.

Firstly we will have to disagree about whether or not the two compound rule is an attempt to enliven the racing or a shameless attempt to generate "interest" and therefore publicity in the tyres. I firmly believe it is the latter.

I guess your interest is in watching overtaking and that you don't derive much pleasure from watching a clever strategy unfold? I enjoy both and don't consider clever tactics to be dull. We had a very good example of that this weekend.

Regardless of whether or not it may be dull, on a track like Monaco for a driver qualifying just outside the top ten a one stop strategy could make a lot of sense.
Given that Bridgestone supply only two compounds it is unlikely that either could be persuaded to last more than a 50% race distance.

In years gone by one stop strategies were quite common and I think we have only seen their demise since the introduction of the multiple compound rule (unless anybody knows differently?).
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Yeah, I think that is right. Certainly as late as 2006 some teams were putting at least one of their drivers on one-stop strategies in some races. I certainly remember Renault doing it with Fisichella on some occasions.
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