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The United States GP continued a recent F1 trend of races being one-stoppers and with little action, but George Russell has a radical solution.
At the United States GP, George Russell suggested an “off the cliff” solution to combat F1’s issue of unexciting races, acknowledging the lack of tyre degradation leading to increased one-stop races.
In Austin, drivers could choose between the C3 and C4 tyres, with the C4 showing to be a strong race tyre while the hard C1 compound was mostly avoided due to its lack of grip.
Despite some competitive battles, the absence of significant tyre degradation has resulted in a trend towards one-stop strategies, with the last voluntary two-stop race occurring in the 2024 Spanish GP.
Efforts to address this include Pirelli introducing a new, softer C6 tyre for 2025, as well as experimenting with missing compound steps like the C1, C3, and C4, and considering raises to the pit-lane speed limit to encourage more strategic diversity.
Russell highlighted the challenge of overtaking due to minimal time differentials between cars in the top positions and stressed the importance of finding a tyre that allows aggressive driving but forces pit stops through significant degradation.
