venkyhere wrote: ↑21 Sep 2024, 13:37
I am scratching my head to try to remember seeing anything close to this level of poverty in terms of 'tyres for race' available before qualifying.
Have they all decided to do 1-stop by default ? what if there is a safety car, which is very very likely ? Is the S a race tyre, for atleast 10 laps ?
Singapore has biggest? (or second biggest) pit loss in the calendar, about 28-29 seconds. In addition it is a track where it is hard to overtake. In previous years it would be a definite one stopper.
Only way this changes in 2024 is if the new DRS zone helps a lot with overtaking. Teams definitely evaluated this. I doubt it will make up for 29 seconds but we will see.