Overview
- Liberty Media is pushing the concept and, according to recent reporting, several teams are willing to explore it at upcoming Sporting Advisory Committee and F1 Commission meetings.
- Pirelli’s Mario Isola said two stops could boost unpredictability but noted it would require regulation to enforce and careful design to avoid unintended consequences.
- Variants under discussion include forcing use of all three compounds with distance caps or simply mandating two stops without specifying tyre choices.
- Pirelli-led simulations indicated teams often converge on the same plan when extra constraints are added, suggesting a compound-agnostic two-stop rule might yield more variety.
- The push follows a run of largely one-stop wins on durable tyres, with mixed precedents from Monaco’s mandated two-stop race and the safety-driven two-stopper in Qatar.