bwoah@lemmy.worldM to Formula 1@lemmy.world · 9 months ago[Tobi Gruner] FIA has set a limit of max 18 laps for new tyre sets in the race today. That means 3 pit stops will be mandatory for each driver.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up194arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up192arrow-down1image[Tobi Gruner] FIA has set a limit of max 18 laps for new tyre sets in the race today. That means 3 pit stops will be mandatory for each driver.lemmy.worldbwoah@lemmy.worldM to Formula 1@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresupercriticalcheese@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·9 months agoThey are designed to degrade like this for show. When the degradation is more than anticipated, it’s too late to get a different type compound since these things are planed way in advance
![[Tobi Gruner] FIA has set a limit of max 18 laps for new tyre sets in the race today. That means 3 pit stops will be mandatory for each driver.](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4e4c90ee-5fc8-4e50-b048-f97b1ebcb5d6.png){kind=link}
They are designed to degrade like this for show. When the degradation is more than anticipated, it’s too late to get a different type compound since these things are planed way in advance