Aston Martin’s chief trackside officer Mike Krack has stated he is expecting a large amount of overtaking at the Italian Grand Prix this weekend.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The 54-year-old went so far as to say that it could set a new record for the highest number of passes in a single race.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The current record was set at the 2023 Dutch Grand Prix, which saw 186 position changes throughout the field during a chaotic event impacted by rain.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
This year’s F1 cars race somewhat differently compared to challengers from the past, with energy deployment playing a major role following the increase in battery output.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Across the opening events of the year, it was common for cars to be repassed shortly after completing a move due to running out of energy.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
With Monza’s layout featuring many long straights which could see a repeat of such a situation, Krack is expecting to see many overtakes take place on Sunday.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be an interesting exercise to validate your models, but also to see how operationally you manage it,\u201d Krack told media including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is one side to say the effect big or small, but also you have to be in a position to follow someone.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cSo there are quite a lot of restrictions on the energy side this weekend. It will be interesting to see how teams we we go about it, first of all, in free-of-tow deployment, but then also in a tow situation.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThen also in the race, how easy passing will be, and especially the passing and repassing games. It probably will be a record of all time here, or like MotoGP.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Monza sits as one of the fastest F1 tracks on the race calendar, with speeds peaking at around 360 km\/h in modern times – however, the figures are set to decrease this year.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Should drivers use different energy deployment strategies throughout the upcoming event, Krack admits that it could create a dangerous situation.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cNormally, the deployment profiles converge over a weekend, so I do not expect any major differences.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if people deploy completely differently, then there is always a risk.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Martin’s chief trackside officer Mike Krack has stated he is expecting a large amount of overtaking at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6175,6178,6176,6179,6177,2599,101,5,4646,6174,6173,6172],"class_list":["post-44762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-italy","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}