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Meanwhile, after a streak of processional races with not much strategic variety – despite Pirelli introducing a ‘step’ between the harder compounds on the US and Mexico – the possibility of mandating two-stop races has crept onto the agenda.

This is one of those ideas which regularly comes up but is a classic “quick fix” which probably won’t work in practice, as is the fate of most supposedly easy solutions to complex problems. You’ll note the farrago in Monaco this year when two stops were enforced.

So the idea is going to be discussed but quite a few teams have sent up warning flags.