The FIA has quietly accomplished away with the rule that noticed two obligatory pit stops on the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix.
Launched as a method of (yawn) spicing up the motion at a circuit the place historically there’s little overtaking, for the 2025 race the FIA launched a rule whereby all drivers needed to make two obligatory pit stops, utilizing three units of tyres versus two.
Sadly, the workforce strategists had been fast to discover a loophole whereby drivers, particularly within the midfield, intentionally backed up rivals working behind both to create a pit cease hole for themselves or their teammate.
The consequence was a race much more farcical and ludicrous than even probably the most processional of earlier occasions.
„It is not how we wish to go racing, however them’s the foundations,“ stated James Vowles after his drivers, Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon, who had been working collectively, swapped positions and intentionally backed up the drivers behind them to assist each other each end within the factors.
At one level, in a bid to go Albon, George Russell, in a bid to interrupt the impasse, intentionally minimize the chicane, incomes himself a 5s penalty within the course of.
Whereas some, like Williams had been in a position to make use of the brand new rule to their benefit, others discovered their race compromised nearly from the second the lights went out.
Followers, drivers and workforce bosses alike had been essential of the rule, which it was feared won’t solely be used once more this 12 months however tried at different circuits.
Fortunately, for as soon as the FIA was listening.
Now, about this vitality harvesting b******s…
