{"id":3246,"date":"2010-03-14T14:17:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T18:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2010-03-14T14:17:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T18:17:48","slug":"f1-to-look-again-at-mandatory-second-pitstop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-to-look-again-at-mandatory-second-pitstop\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 to look again at mandatory second pitstop"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">As the F1 circus is dismantled in Bahrain on Sunday night, talks are already underway to address the sport&#8217;s new problem.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The debut of the refuelling ban is now the subject of harsh criticism, after some observers slammed a less than exciting 49 tours of the Sakhir circuit.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The race is quite straightforward.\u00a0 You start on heavy fuel, you do one stop and then you &#8230; it&#8217;s pretty much a train the whole way,&#8221; said Lewis Hamilton, who finished third.<\/p>\n<p>Worse still in Bahrain is that the first and only pitstops took place very early in the race because the leading cars all qualified on Bridgestone&#8217;s faster soft tyre.<\/p>\n<p>For fear of this very consequence, some teams pushed in the pre-season period for a second pitstop to be mandatory, but the proposal was voted down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we have to re-examine that,&#8221; FOTA chairman Martin Whitmarsh said on BBC television after the race.<\/p>\n<p>Another solution is in Bridgestone&#8217;s hands, with the problem exacerbated this weekend because the most suitable qualifying tyre was still good enough to take the leading cars to an acceptable single pitstop window.<\/p>\n<p>The result was that most of the race strategies were the same.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today was not the best show, we know that and we have all got to work together to improve it,&#8221; added Whitmarsh.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the F1 circus is dismantled in Bahrain on Sunday night, talks are already underway to address the sport&#8217;s new problem. \u00a0 The debut of the refuelling ban is now the subject of harsh criticism, after some observers slammed a less than exciting 49 tours of the Sakhir circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3,604],"tags":[879,390,5262,118,491,5353],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}