Re: Monaco 2025 - Wurz solutions

On 2025-05-27 08:36, a425couple wrote:

On 5/27/25 01:57, Yazoo wrote:

On Mon, 26 May 2025 17:02:52 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
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On 2025-05-26 16:46, Geoff wrote:

Many blamed the 'compulsory 2-stop' rule for disadvantaging cars/teams
stuck behind others doing their own strategies.
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The answer - overtake them, just as you would have to in order to gain a
place without the new rule !
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Yes, not easy at Monaco. but never has been whatever the regs.
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Meh.
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I'm glad they tried something new to spice up a race that has been a
procession for decades.
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Did it work? No, not really.

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Yeah, mixed feelings.
Monaco has historical status as "the" race.
But actual racing has been almost impossible for years now. Cars are
too big for this narrow streets.
And nothing can solve this problem.
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Did you see the old car alongside the new one? The old one looks like
a toy compared to the new one. Current cars are huge, too big for
these streets of Monaco.

 I agree with the great problems created by modern cars huge size.
 In this article Alexander Wurz discusses 3 feasible solutions.
(He certainly knows the subject!)
 citation - go to it, to view pictures.
https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/three-feasible-ways-to-create-monaco- overtaking-wurzs-proposals-explained/? fbclid=IwY2xjawKh1HtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFtdWVlNTlnbXdNV0kya1dmAR5T8YTBZInGQrS57CEink8iw8TXALlauzdT_Z7wvKXNj5L1RoQAcH96QjQ65A_aem_GOqjA8u77csxx8mN9o-raQ

If you want to excerpt an article... ...fine.
But posting it in toto is just poor netiquette.
Anyway.
His idea about the Station (sorry...Fairmont) Hairpin is dumb.
It doesn't help a driver attempting to overtake to force the leading car onto a compromised line unless the track AFTER the exit of that corner rewards the better exit speed you can achieve by taking the proper facing line.
If you were to modify the station hairpin as Wurz suggests, you're still immediately into Lower Mirabeau, so there's nowhere to go for a car behind that exits the hairpin with greater speed.
I agree with him about the Nouvelle Chicane modification. If that could be moved a little later and reshaped so that a driver who defends the inside on the first part of the chicane might open up the inside to the overtaking driver in the second half.
I doubt there's enough change you could make at Rascasse that you'd actually generate any overtakes. Drivers would defend the inside and there simply isn't room that the car behind could take advantage of his better exit speed.