BobbyDeacs Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Like the closing of DRS when conditions got too bad, they could force the teams to get both drivers onto wets within current or next lap.This would have stopped Bianchi aquaplaning and seems a reasonably simple safety change to implement and enforce. They were only staying out on wrong tyres in anticipation of race end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JensonBottom Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 And how exactly would you decide what the cut off point is when teams are forced onto wets? Hamilton was saying how they didn't need the wet weather tyres when others were pitting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APR193 Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Don't agree with it at all. If the condition were bad enough they would have been on wets. If you can go quicker on wets, a driver is not (unless its only a few laps to go etc) going to stay on inters. It would be a knee jerk reaction and a bad one imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VetteIfan Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 BobbyDeacs said: Like the closing of DRS when conditions got too bad, they could force the teams to get both drivers onto wets within current or next lap.This would have stopped Bianchi aquaplaning and seems a reasonably simple safety change to implement and enforce. They were only staying out on wrong tyres in anticipation of race end. I'm not so sure about that. Vettel reported he was aquaplaning at 80 kph on the full wets at the start of the race. It gets to a point where you can aquaplane very easily no matter what tyre you are on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyDeacs Posted October 12, 2014 Author Share Posted October 12, 2014 How do you decide when? Use common sense like they do with disabling DRS.Aquaplaning - deeper tread = less likelihood, simple as that. All you need to do is declare full wet conditions then teams have current plus next lap to change (so both drivers can be done). Once they have changed it is their choice when to change back to inters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APR193 Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 If you do that you may as well not race in full wet conditions. Part of the challenge is getting it exactly right on when you change over to x/y/z tyre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JensonBottom Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Like I said, the Mercedes didn't need to pit for wets whereas others did so there is no 'cut off' point where everyone should be forced to pit. Its not like DRS at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjsharp2010 Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 tbh I think the only change they need to make is with the safety car so that in conditions like what we had in Suzuka and a car crashes out as Sutil did there deploy the safety car neutralise the race and then send the recovery crews. In dry conditions keep it as is. But in conditions where there's a chance of aquaplanimg to follow this order obviously the safety rules need looking at but to me this looks like the best solution Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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