ROUND 9: 🇨🇦 Canada


FORMULA 1 AWS GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2024


Circuit stats


  • First Grand Prix: 1978
  • Number of laps: 70
  • Circuit Length: 4.361 km
  • Race Distance: 305.27 km
  • Lap record: 1:13.078 Valtteri Bottas (2019)
  • 2023 winner: Max Verstappen

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  • PahassaPaikassa@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    What a genious idea, lets give the teams less safe options and force them to take absolutely insane risks in difficult conditions.

    What could possibly go wrong

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      5 months ago

      They will stay on Wets and complete at slower speeds… Then switch to slicks when a race is a possible so it does not run into a parade of the dry patch

      IMO the inters are actually more dangerous because they permit more speed on the dry patch, but all it takes is stepping a few inches into the wetter area to go out flying.

      And maybe I misinterpreted the “risk the slicks” part… I checked the original vid and they actually said something like only switch to slicks after the stewards give the go ahead, this will create a bit of a rush to switch to slicks ASAP or decide whether to stay out on wets a little longer (I think that approach is actually safer)