Why? What’s the incentive to do that? That’s how you get a sport where the teams besides managing their tires will baby their engines even more. It will just increase the gap between the top teams and bottom teams. It would make the sport boring to watch, and halfway the season multiple cars will be missing from the grid.
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Why? What’s the incentive to do that? That’s how you get a sport where the teams besides managing their tires will baby their engines even more. It will just increase the gap between the top teams and bottom teams. It would make the sport boring to watch, and halfway the season multiple cars will be missing from the grid.
Great point. I actually hadn’t thought of that.