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2024 Sāo Paulo Grand Prix - [POST RACE] discussion thread 🏁 (lemmy.world)

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ROUND 21: 🇧🇷 Brazil

FORMULA 1 LENOVO GRANDE PRÊMIO DE SÃO PAULO 2024

Circuit stats

Circuit name: Autódromo José Carlos Pace
First Grand Prix: 1973
Number of laps: 71
Circuit Length: 4.309 km
Race Distance: 305.879 km
Lap record: 1:10.540 Valtteri Bottas (2018)
2023 winner: Max Verstappen

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't get the Safety Car for "teams are on the wrong tires". Some had already switched to full wets. Surely this should be up to the teams to screw up instead of relying on the organizers to save them staying out on inters.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Even if everyone was on full wets, they bring it out for visibility and hydroplaning. I think that's part of the reason no one switched to full wets. They knew if conditions got bad enough to need them, the SC would come out and there might be a red flag too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

From memory, Tsunoda, Lawson, Hulk, Perez, Zhou, and I think there was 1 more. Their strategy was paying off with lap times 3s faster and that was just getting started. Sad to seen a great strategic choice like this turn to shit because teams know the race director will be overly cautious and protect teams from having to make risky strategy calls.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

At least four cars had switched to full wets at the time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

How do you even fix that? At this point driving on the wrong tyre is an optimal strategy. Either:

Driver stays on inters and calls for red flag cause it's undrivable
Driver on inters crashes because they should be on wets, causing a red flag
someone (like RB today) pits for wets and gets punished because someone else crashed out and caused a red flag

Also I'm not fooled by drivers moaning about how wets suck and have no grip; as long as inters are even 0.1 a lap faster than wets, everyone will want to run inters. I don't think there's place for two wet weather compounds since everyone will pick the 'faster' one regardles of weather.