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    Explaining our pit stop strategy | 2025 Monaco GP F1 Akkodis Race Debrief



    Plenty to chat through after a tough Monaco GP weekend. Jodi and Bradley Lord, Team Representative, explain George’s qualifying problems, why we didn’t split our pit strategy and expectations for F1’s return to Spain in our Akkodis Race Debrief.

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    00:00-01:07 Intro and Monaco summary
    01:07-02:31 – What happened to George’s car in Quali?
    02:31-05:10 – Why did we not split the strategy?
    05:10-06:35 – What could be tweaked with the two-stop rule?
    06:35-07:43 – What did Toto say to James Vowles?
    07:43-09:06 – How is the morale in the garage going into Spain?
    09:06-10:15 – How do we debrief a weekend like this?
    10:15-11:14 – Will the new technical directive impact performance?
    11:14-12:23 – Expectations for Spain and Outro

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    19 Comments

    9. @filipesiegrist on

      I'm really disappointed with those reliability issues.

      Mercedes cars got1 DNF at Imola and another (in practice) at Monaco

      That helped Ferrari and Red Bull to catch up.

    11. @sebastiandierks7919 on

      Great video!

      The strategy really looked so bad during the broadcast, being behind people with 2 stops while still needing to do 2 stops yourself. But with hindsight I agree that there was just no possibility to get past the Williams pair. If they hadn't inverted their cars, then eventually you would have been freed, but two teammates in adjacent postions can just not be passed in Monaco, with or without the 2-stop rule.

      My only criticism is that you didn't necessarily know before the race that the Williams would play the race like that. They could have chosen to drive more ethically, or one of them could have had a problem, or a crash early in the race. So maybe it would still have been better to split strategies and have one driver go for the early two stops to be in as much free air as possible (stop for the second time when you have closed up to the field again etc). Just to be able to profit potentially massively from two undercuts in case the race develops beneficially.

      However, I also see that the overcut combined with a lucky safety car or red flag is just a similar hope-based strategy with the advantage of keeping your drivers together, which as we saw would have been of big strategic value once you reached the points. So it kinda makes sense what you did, but it also felt very conservative during the race. In the end it didn't matter because you couldn't get past the Williams no matter what you did.

    13. @OussamaErraji on

      The key to have more strategy/overtakes in monaco is in the TYRES: the softest tyres options only must be used in the race, more tyre degradation lap over lap creates more delta lap time between cars with old tyres and new ones. Traction loss of the car ahead should enable for overtakes at turn 1 & chicane.

      Also NO PIT STOPS allowed during VSC/Safety car, pit stops allowed only under full racing conditions (no free pitstops: mechanics train the whole winter for those 2.0s pitstops, freebies should not exist in a such a competitive sport!)

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