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I think pit stops in F3 would be rubbish. As has been said, you'd need to make the races longer, probably meaning we'd have to go back to one long race instead of two "sprint" races, that the series changed to a few years ago.
Yes, drivers will have to deal with pit stops when they get to F1. They also have to deal with 3-litre engines and a ton of extra horsepower as well - why not introduce that to F3?!
F3 is a feeder series, a learning category. Drivers should be in it to learn how to qualify and race, how to overtake and defend position. Not to learn how to depend on their team to gain them places. The last thing we want is to groom a generation of drivers who don't know how to overtake because they know they can do it at pit stops. Or a great driver to miss out on the championship and the chance to move up just because his team can't change tyres quickly enough.
If you wanted to introduce anything that is needed for F1, in my opinion it should be one-shot qualifying. Drivers like Coulthard and Raikkonen have been messing that up, it's clearly a quality that takes more skill than driving into the pits does, and more likely to be something F1 team bosses look out for.
Last edited by Paul Rayner; 22 Apr 2004 at 15:09.
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