[Official] Monaco Grand Prix 2024: Grand Prix Weekend Thread - Round 8 of 24

[Teretonga]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

It usually does. And when it doesn't it creates 2 massive groups that are entertaining. It isn't a bad thing. But it's different to how F1 fuel strategies work.

Sometimes it's 3 strategies if Tim Cindric is on the funky stuff that weekend.

Actually, the strategies are different.
Everyone is trying to get to the same end but when there are Full Course Yellows on ovals, or there are multiple safety cars because of incidents then things get really interesting.
In Detroit this weekend Herta and Dixon were together shadowing each other early on but when a safety car incident occurred there was a play to benefit and Dixon got the good end.
His teammate Armstrong went to the front, then to 20th then back to second through strategy and only ended up third because of low fuel (running out on the slow down lap).

That doesn't happen in F1, so strategy can play a much more significant role in IndyCar then it does in F1.