How Motogp can show the way on free tire change on red flag

When Sunday’s Motogp America GP’s first attempt to start GP Was red-jerk, and then resumed with everyoneTrackhouse Aprilia Pitt broke the anger on a large scale. Team principal David Bivio was noticed that his rider A Ogura – One in three has already fitted the slix on the grid – there will be no reward to take that gambling.

You can just understand that Bivio, who expressed his displeasure over live television, was coming. Taking the risk of a tire in variable situations, not with the possibility of winning usually for a team, is the only opportunity to make the impossible possible. Therefore, when, dry (or completely wet) for months or years sit patiently through the race, the day of the mixed-season of that magic finally, teams like Trackhouse dare to dream.

If such a squad manages to make what the correct call is – as the crew of Bivio did on Sunday – the trophy starts to loose on the horizon and pulse quick. The team has grabbed its opportunity and played with the right hand … This is the game!

So when the race control comes together during a red flag and says, ‘By the way, all the big names will be allowed to copy their move without any cost,’ you can understand why emotions run high.

We have seen the inappropriateness of such red flag ‘reset’ many times in motorsport, of course. So often, in fact, it should not be necessary to write this piece. These conditions should have been disappeared long ago, but they hang around, smoldering like the socks of a ruler’s lucky pair.

The ‘Free Tire Change’ Rules in Red Flag Time have been a subject in Formula 1 for years-and it is not only a crop in the weather-related scenarios. In 2011, resume the accident that prevents a dry Monaco GP, when Sebstian Vetail turned his worn tires for free, thus erasing all previous strategic decisions and ruined the potentially thrilling finish.

These reset do not only rob the ‘Mino’ of the occasion, of course – they can also get big guns. George Russell felt deprived of this in Mugelo in 2020. Lando Noris called it “stupid” and invented the “worst rule” in Saudi Arabia, 2021.

The situations in GPS of last year’s Monaco and Brazil also saw a call to scrap the rule. Still nothing has been done. It is as if this rule is a sacred cow.

Thankfully in the explosion Motogp on the subject, it is less common, if the race stops are less common and the championship – especially on a dry day – is less strategically complicated. Security cars and compulsory tire compound switches are not one thing for a beginning.

Why, when the flaws in this approach are clearly exposed several times, is it an urge to clean the strategic slate and thus the story of the race has been effectively canceled so far?

Nevertheless, Motogp is complicated in validating the idea that this rule has a location in the top level motorsport-and before Sunday it had flashpoints. In the emergency 2020 schedule, on both of their visits to Austria, for example, the riders were influenced by their rivals that they were allowed to change the tire on the stoppage.

This race was really dry: Austrian GP was stopped for horrific shunt Franco MorbideliWhile the latter Sterian GP was given a red-jerk when Mavric Vinals made their dramatic break failure. And in both, the riders who were left more tires only in their allocation – even though no one was planning a stoppage in a dry motoogp race – was effectively rewarded. It was silly, unnecessary and unfair.

Subject of principle

If the memory works, there was a time when the principle of ‘not touched your vehicle on the red flag – it is not a pitstop’ was a fairly original in motor). Indycar, for its credit, still takes that approach in its rules. Yet the premiere to-wheel and four-wheel categories are thrown with the idea of ​​allowing rubber/vehicle reset, whenever red flags are thrown.

Why, when the flaws in this approach are clearly exposed several times, is it an urge to clean the strategic slate and thus the story of the race has been effectively canceled so far? It does not make much understanding on two wheels as it does on four. In the world of many complex problems, which need to be solved, this is not one of them. The red flag ‘leaves the car alone’. Till the police arrives, it is self-sufficient as holding its hands from the crime site. Why should we keep beating this drum?

Certainly, weather or some other factors can change during a red flag. A vicious dog can bite the leader, while he was sitting in Pitlane, waiting for the restart. But these are random events for which no one can make laws. Inappropriate items are, but if you follow the principle of not allowing anyone not to touch your machines, at least you leave that stuff in luck. Somebody asks a motorcystem MLA. Nobody asks that you engineer a situation that was systematically correcting properly.

A warning or two

While the ‘not touched your bike’ rule should be made a fundamental principle for the Motogp Red-Flag situations as soon as possible, it does not mean that some bits of general knowledge cannot be applied where necessary.

In the case of a holocaust or a track that is wet at any point, when you are committed to the choice of tires-when a three-minute board is displayed, in the case of Motogp-it will clearly be fruitless to emphasize that the Motogp rider starts again on the tire. This is a simple security issue.

But what you can do is that allowing riders to change tires in this scenario is a special deviation from that fundamental principle. You can accept those who were from luck or decision-on the right rubber required those who were not to take punishment through rides. In the case of Motogp, in-race tires (bikes) cost comparable time for swap. This is a very appropriate replacement.

In contrast, a track leading from wet to drought, as Cota did on Sunday, is hardly any security matter. If you are stuck with the weights at the wrong time, you can withdraw a lap on the pits and correct your mistake in normal fashion. There is no case here for official intervention. Guide theory can remain in place.

There is an argument that tire changes should always be allowed, even in a dry race, due to the possibility that someone may have participated on the debris of the accident. This is not only an over-the-top bit of health and safety; This is an official over-engineering that we have already discovered. It targets a type of fairness that ignores the racing reality and only exists on paper.

As long as you have a lap before starting the warm-up or lap, the riders will get an opportunity to realize whether they have gone wrong before going to the racing. And if it is? Then they are free to the pit and re -connect the race when it is addressed! Yes, of course, it is an inauspicious landscape for a rider, who may have raised a piece of someone else innocent. But again, at least it’s bad luck that is down to fate. This is better-I feel-officially in an attempt to create a fairness in an attempt to refer to those who were winning the battle of strategy to transfer bad luck on those who were winning the strategy.

In any case, the argument of debris is clearly contained in car racing, where contact is common and bodywork is more generously, more often scattered. Derew is rarely an issue in motorcycle racing only.

Returning to principles and deviations: No, you cannot dismiss the opportunities where mechanical or tires intervention during stoppage are only general knowledge. But you may also have laws that cover these scenarios impartially. For example, Indycar, can work on your car during the red flag, but if that work is done then you are going behind the restart snake. (Rule 7.1.4.2D, if you are interested!)

Referring to the constitution …

The current FIM Grand Prix World Championship Regulations Documents lasts up to 381 pages. As the confusion is shown around the grid process in Cota, there are still some gray areas. And while there is no problem in addressing them, some rock-solid guiding principles can help everyone understand how to handle new situations a little better.

To drill down on the principle in question: There is an inherent, spontaneous morality for red-flag conditions that all motorcyts understand. Even those who make profits from the mess in Cota – including the winner Francaco gardenia And runner-up Alex marks – Accepted that the situation on riders like Ogura and team owners was unfair. Everyone understands that there is no stoppage – especially you have been! – There should be an opportunity to undo the mistakes made before that.

If that principle is so clear for all related people, it is probably worth adding a 382th page and bringing it down on paper as a type of constitutional guideline. It seems that the MPs of F1 need to take a hand wrestling to take a step in this way – can Motogp set themselves a little less than their ways?