The FIA has elected to raise the pit-lane speed limit for the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort in an attempt to create more strategic variance.<\/p>\n
Owing to the tight surroundings of the pit-lane at the coastal circuit, the usual 100kph limit is reduced to 60kph to protect team members working in the pit-lane from being struck by a car or by flying debris in case of a collision.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This means drivers spend longer in the pit-lane, with teams therefore reluctant to lose race time and track position with multiple stops at a circuit which is also tough to overtake on.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The race has usually morphed into a one-stop when dry, but in a bid to combat this, the minimum pit-lane speed limit is to climb to 80kph (49.7mph) from the 60kph (37.2 mph) limit in force in previous years.<\/p>\n
It is hoped that this, in conjunction with Pirelli going a step softer than in previous years on its tyre compound selection, will create more strategy options for teams than a one-stop.<\/p>\n
Pirelli has brought the C2-C3-C4 compounds to serve as the hard-medium-soft in its range for its 500th F1 grand prix, with the C1-C2-C3 range being used in 2024’s race, won by Lando Norris of McLaren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FIA has elected to raise the pit-lane speed limit for the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-97062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97062","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=97062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}