{"id":103987,"date":"2025-08-29T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103987\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:15:09","slug":"fia-confirms-huge-change-ahead-of-dutch-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103987\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA confirms huge change ahead of Dutch Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increasing the pit lane speed ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix, Formula 1 stalwart Fernando Alonso has given it his backing as the drivers shouldn\u2019t have a problem even with the tight pit lane.<\/p>\n<p>Zandvoort has one of the tightest pit lanes on the F1 calendar, which has in the past seen the FIA reduce the drivers\u2019 pit lane entry speed to 60km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>FIA have upped the pit lane speed in a bid to open the door to two-stop strategies<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting by Thomas Maher<\/p>\n<p>This year, though, it\u2019s been increased to 80km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>The FIA note read: \u201cPit lane speed limits: 80km\/h in practice, qualifying and the race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after a spate of one-stop strategy races were created by the extra time it would take in the pit lane to make a second stop, thus negating the desire to even try a two-stopper.<\/p>\n<p>But by increasing the speed limit in the pit lane, even though it is one of the tighter on the calendar, the FIA is opening the door to different strategies.<\/p>\n<p>It has, however, raised safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>F1 2025: The season\u2019s winners and losers<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The results of the F1 2025 championship <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/standings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The updated Drivers\u2019 and Constructors\u2019 Championship standings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Double World Champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/driver\/fernando-alonso\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alonso<\/a> has downplayed that, saying the drivers are more than capable of driving at 80km\/h even in close confines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think so,\u201d he told the media, including PlanetF1.com. \u201cI think drivers, we are normally always okay with 80.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe raised sometimes the point at a few circuits, maybe apart of Monaco, which we really feel that 60 maybe is the limit for safety. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the rest of the circuits of the calendar, I think we don\u2019t see too many problems with 80.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Grand Prix Drivers\u2019 Association director George Russell, he too was asked if it was a good thing given Zandvoort\u2019s tight pit lane.<\/p>\n<p>He replied: \u201cYeah. I mean, I don\u2019t remember the numbers, but I think that there are narrower pit lanes in the season, or tighter pit lanes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, time will tell. I\u2019m sure if anyone has any concerns after Friday, they can revert back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Formula 1\u2019s tyre supplier Pirelli have also made changes to encourage a two-stop race strategy by bringing a softer tyre compound than last year.<\/p>\n<p>The teams will have a choice of the C2 (Hard), the C3 (Medium) and the C4 (Soft), whereas in 2024 the available compounds were a step harder in the C1, C2 and C3.<\/p>\n<p>Read next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/charles-leclerc-responds-to-george-russell-illegal-ferrari-suspicions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Illegal Ferrari SF-25? Charles Leclerc responds to George Russell\u2019s suspicions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Increasing the pit lane speed ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix, Formula 1 stalwart Fernando Alonso has given&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,15263,817,813,816,818,44,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-103987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-dutch-grand-prix","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-home-page","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}