Red Bull boss Christian Horner provides a panacea for the F1 Monaco GP conundrum

Red Bull boss Christian Horner feels that the one option to the present scenario at Monaco is revamping the observe and including longer braking zones. The racing, or loss of it, has turn out to be a little bit of a subject at Monaco in the previous couple of years because the automobiles have turn out to be large, main to just about a nil likelihood of pulling off any overtaking transfer.

The F1 Monaco GP has all the time been infamous with regards to the type of alternatives it provides to check out and pull off an overtake. There don’t seem to be that many huge braking issues across the observe. To upload to it, the automobiles have got too giant. We’re now not racing within the early 2000s, the place even if an overtake used to be exhausting to tug off, it wasn’t unimaginable. We’ve reached some degree now the place there are nearly 0 overtakes.

To remedy this and convey some form of variability to the Monaco GP, the FIA had handed a law the place the race used to be going to be a compulsory 2-stopper. Well, that did not yield a productive race, as groups simply performed the foundations and used one automobile to again the sector whilst the opposite pulled out an opening. In the tip the race used to be simply processional, and now not a lot trade used to be noticed within the motion.

Talking to media, together with Sportskeeda, Red Bull boss Christian Horner felt that redesigning the observe would possibly simply be the answer. He mentioned,

“I’d say it was an improvement. It was strategically more interesting, there was more jeopardy to it, you know, certainly better than what we saw last year, where there was just a procession.”

The Red Bull boss added,

“I think it’s the only way to really encourage any form of overtaking. I don’t think I saw a single overtake in the race. So, trying to create a bit more braking area, either on the exit of the tunnel or, you know, Turn 1. If there was any way of creating a longer braking zone somewhere we should really investigate it.”

Mercedes boss has the same opinion together with his Red Bull counterpart

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff agreed with Red Bull’s Christian Horner, the place he mentioned that even if the rules would possibly now not have labored this time round, it used to be essential that the FIA attempted one thing other. The Austrian felt that possibly subsequent season a delta might be installed position for automobiles to stop groups from backing up each and every different or slowing right down to a big extent. He advised Sky Sports,

“No. But we had to try something. I see it from a different perspective. This is such a great entertainment. We had full grandstands. There are spectators everywhere on the terraces and on the boat. Lots of spectacle, wining and dining.”

He added,

“Saturday is the day the sport comes alive. On Sunday we tried something, it didn’t work and maybe for next year we need to find some regulations where maybe we need to define a maximum lap time, so this backing off didn’t happen.”

While Mercedes had a horror race in Monaco, their Austrian counterpart Red Bull had a greater run with Max Verstappen securing a P4 at a observe he did not be expecting to do smartly.