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
Track Map
FORMULA 1 AWS GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2024
Awesome race but I’m going to echo something I read online I agree with
There should be no inters … Either run on Wets or risk slicks
In inters, the race becomes Monaco where nobody dates to pass because if you leave the dry line you are fucked. On Wets it should be a normal race (albeit a slower speed one) and then, the first ballsy team to get the timing right on slicks would get a massive advantage… But it would be a risky move (like a game of chicken)
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
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)