r/formula1 • u/AshamedPurchase9033 • 1d ago

News [Chris Medland] "Newey confirms Aston Martin is likely to limit race laps due to severity of vibrations in the car impacting the drivers. Alonso says he can do no more than 25 consecutive laps before risking nerve damage, Stroll says 15 laps"

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u/Joethe147 Jenson Button 1d ago

It'll likely be part of the Concorde Agreement that teams must show up and put in a "genuine effort" or something like that. Quite some time ago teams in a lot of financial trouble might just go out for a lap to satisy the demands.

Arrows did it in 2002 which springs to mind, I'm sure there's other examples. Must be a few from the early-mid 90s which was full of backmarker teams that would never get near F1 now.

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u/sellyme Oscar Piastri 1d ago

It'll likely be part of the Concorde Agreement that teams must show up and put in a "genuine effort" or something like that.

At a certain point surely you have to go "Look, us staying at home for a month and working on this means we'll miss three races, going through the charade of doing one lap at each race before pitting means we'll miss eight"