2021 Formula 1 Thread

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Originally Posted by ZCanadian

On a street circuit like Monaco, or maybe (but less so with it's one eternally long straight) Baku, perhaps the idea has some merit. And especially on these types of courses, where teams have reason to expect a free pit stop due to safety car at some point, as lower inflation will lead to premature failure, guaranteed.

But now that we are back to proper race circuits, the FIA can check all the like but I doubt anyone would have monkied around with dropping pressures anyway. You might gain a fraction in the corners, but you'll lose out on straight line speed and that's where most of the passing opportunities are going to be. And you'll never make up the 25 seconds or so, for an extra stop to cover off premature degradation.

Agreed! Really doesn't make much since as it happened to two different teams and on the same tire or position with similar laps on the tire. Two is a pattern! RB had nothing to gain as they were fast and the same for AM. Both teams had nothing to gain by "cheating" in that fashion.

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