Poll: Official 2023 Dutch Grand Prix Thread - Circuit Zandvoort - Round 14

Rate the Dutch race

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chrismscotland said:
Wasn't there some talk about Pirelli looking at producing wets that could actually be raced?
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It's not the wet tyres really though, they're decent enough tyres - the problem is more so that the inters are too capable. When the inters can manage 'a bit damp' all the way to 'this needs a red flag' then it doesn't matter what you do with the wets, they'll never see any meaningful use.

If we want two categories of wet tyres, they probably need to scrap 'wets' as we know them and try to make a 'damp inter' and a 'wet inter' to create a bit of performance difference.
 
I echo what others have said, extreme wet's are a waste of rubber if all they do is red flag a race when it becomes wet enough to be using them in a race. I agree with the safety car for the removal of any crashed vehicles, but wait until it is clear enough to race properly, and don't waste racing laps behind a safety car or do a rolling start.
 
If they took away the full wet tyres, it would be admitting that they aren't interested in properly exciting races. Think about the adverts for F1 games, it's always bucketing down. People like the idea of proper wet races, but unfortunately it's not been good in "real rain" for years.
It's always a nice carrot to dangle on the stick.
 
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This is part of the problem really - "it's normal rain", "sunshine and showers".

If we can't even think about starting to race in conditions of average to light rainfall, it's time to admit F1 is no longer capable of wet weather racing, scrap wet tyres etc.

We're going to be waiting until the track is almost dry before this restarts aren't we?
 
Journey said:
I echo what others have said, extreme wet's are a waste of rubber if all they do is red flag a race when it becomes wet enough to be using them in a race. I agree with the safety car for the removal of any crashed vehicles, but wait until it is clear enough to race properly, and don't waste racing laps behind a safety car or do a rolling start.
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Yeah, they could have just finished the race without stopping it.

CSMonkeh said:
Perez gets entirely new car
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He’ll probably just crash it again.

Edit - gonna switch over for the Toon vs Liverpool match if they haven’t sorted this in time.
 
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So, next rain in 15 minutes.

But, they have to give 10 minutes warning for a restart, and we've not had that yet. So at most if they announce now, 5 minutes before more rain.
 
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