The F1 Commission’s gimmick aroused negative opinions, and some bickering between Team Principal, but it is not all to be thrown away for the next season: the race was more dynamic than the previous ones
Double compulsory stop in Monaco? Rejected. The F1 Commission gimmick, which hoped to animate the slowest Grand Prix of the season by forcing the pilots to a double passage in the Box lane did not have the hoped for effects. The stables in fact thought that the best strategy was to slow down the group with a single -seater favoring the other. Result? No overtaking (or almost) and a half quarrel between Toto Wolff and James Vowles.
The episode
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Starting from the two team principal of Mercedes and Williams, the episode is very curious: we are halfway through the race, Wolff’s phone rings. “Excuse me”, says a message signed James Vowles. In the meantime, Alex Albon is shooting four seconds on the track, slower than his ideal step thus favoring a parking without traffic to his partner Sainz. Behind him, Russell goes crazy for fifty laps, until he loses patience and pulls straight to the Chicane Nouvelle, refusing to return the position to the Thai. “I prefer to take a penalty”, cut short via radio, convinced that I have remedied a penalty of “only” ten seconds. Result? Drive Through for Mercedes and ruined race.
SMS in Wolff
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If between the two pilots everything is already solved – Albon has offered a dinner to his friend George to apologize – among the Team Principal there has been some more sparkles. In Pit Lane, Wolff and Vowles exchanged a few more words, with Toto decidedly clouded by the strategy conceived by his former right arm, only to clarify his position in hospitality. “James grew up with me in Mercedes – he explained to cold mind – he wrote me a message of apologies, explaining me that they had no alternatives. I replied” I know “.” This is not the way we like to run – confirms the Team Principal of Williams – but we had to follow a plan to arrive among the top ten “.
Hope 2026
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In short, all to be thrown away? Not exactly. The 2025 edition of the Monaco Grand Prix was certainly more dynamic than the last. The pilots – except for slowdowns imposed by the box – were able to push without managing the tires, well aware that the Pirelli tires would have lasted without particular degradation. Still, today to overcome it is necessary to be faster than the single -seater that precedes by more than three seconds. A enormousness. The hope is that with the cars of the next season – also modified in the dimensions from the new regulations – things can finally change. Otherwise “it will converge to do as on Mario Kart and launch the bananas”, suggests Verstappen.
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