Big Tea wrote: ↑09 May 2023, 19:09
ENGINE TUNER wrote: ↑09 May 2023, 17:48
Big Tea wrote: ↑09 May 2023, 16:21
DRS trains make it processional. There should be a limit of one lap for the car infront and have to fan n2 seconds behind to reset it. This would allow following cars to 'take a turn' at passing the blocker.
DRS was implemented to counteract dirty air to help overtaking, dirty air does not take a lap off, so DRS shouldn't either. The problem is the tires and the only way to fix the problem is to get better tires.
It takes a lot of effort to get and stay within 1s of the car ahead, it puts more stress thru the engine and tires to stay there for a couple laps, if the dirty air doesn't take a break, why should the DRS?
F1 was processional long before DRS
If they sit behind each other lap after lap, DRS is obviously not 'helping overtake' in these cases.
In all probability one or more of the cars in the 'train' could get but the leading car if not for the others between them and the second car could probably try far harder to overtake if not for protecting their position from the 'train' behind them.
The only cars that seem to benefit from DRS now are those who would not need it anyway.
If they can not pass within a lop or two, no problem, drop back and try again the next lap with a run up.
If another car passes them in the meantime, then they were not quick enough anyway and that car passing the 'blocker' will give them DRS so the whole train moves along more quickly.
It seems to create more poor racing than it assists for everyone except the leading few cars who get blue flags and do not really need it.
Blue flags only exist for cars being lapped and cars coming out of the pit(iirc).
F1 was processional LONG before DRS, but the terrible pirelli tires make DRS more necessary.
Watch the 2005 season, every team could push 100% every lap for the whole race on 1 set of tires, passing was decent(and a higher% on track) and marbles were minimal. Kimi won from 15th in Suzuka. The tires were phenomenal and probably better(faster, more durable, safer, and lighter) than anything Pirelli has ever provided F1.
DRS helps the trailing driver keep pressure on the leading driver. Sometimes the zone length is too long, but it seemed about right in Miami, we saw passes into T1, T10 and T17, and we saw a lot of defenses in those places as well, we also saw drivers pass in T17 and then get passed themselves in T1.
If they sit behind each other lap after lap then they probably started in the race in about speed order with slower cars in the back and faster ones ahead of them, that is exactly how qualifying works, and expecting something different from lining them up from fast to slow would be lunacy. Unfortunately that has always been how the cars are lined up and I don't see it changing any time soon.