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Overtakes in wet races #2

It's the effect of so called dirty air, turbulences from the car ahead rendering the own aerodynamics less effective, that's causing it. It is present in dry races as well but usually DRS counters it by bunching up the field again (as at first only the leading car is free of it as from the 2nd car on all cars behind it suffer from it similarily and thus are still able to go similar pace, bare differences in car and weight). With the exception of tracks where it is strong enough to open up more than a second in a single lap and DRS is too weak to regain enough time. In iGP it's Monaco, which is the reason it always feels like a rain race there.

F1 usually suffers from it as well. But in rain races they often abandon the window of their cars fine tuned aerodynamics a bit by running more old school brute wing downforce which is less affected by dirty air while increasing air resistance which in turn increases the value of slip stream. That and (for the bigger part) the more difficult track and grip conditions opens up more overtaking chances there.

That's for the reasons, now the suggestion part. I'd suggest to give the wing value above a certain value, covering most tracks dry setup, the ability to reduce the effect of dirty air. This would reduce it automatically in rain races due to the higher ideal setup, even more so in thunderstorm conditions, but also slightly on extreme tracks like Monaco. If balanced well managers could even decide to exchange a bit of lap performance against better overtaking ability by setting wings above the ideal setup.

I can't understand why Frank's post can have 3 downvotes.


Are people afraid of changing? He's only giving an idea which ends stating it very clearly:

Edit: I think it's regarded as not enough, partially at least /Edit

@Gian Michele: There are no differences in strength of dirty air between dry and rain, that's other factors at work, and completely removing dirty air isn't the way to go, it would turn rain races into a mere matter of having the fastest car and setting the strategy with theoretical lowest race time disregarding any considerations of traffic and the race unfolding. In most cases it's already that way in rain as Qualification already orders the cars pretty much according to their base performance, no need to remove the last traces of strategy tactics remaining. A bit of blocking has to remain to enable a match of the ability to defend against attack between the (currently) slower and faster car and not turning opponents into mere shadows on the track to be passed without resistance. 
But currently the effect is too strong in rain as even with a lot of speed advantage it's impossible to attack no matter what you do with the exception of using a lot of boost just to bridge the gap.

No, it would decrease the numbers of strategies by setting the limit at tyre wear instead at max sensible fuel weight. Because, while fuel weight allows a speed increase by reducing the stint length inside its useful range enabling possible strategy variance, making tyre wear the upper limit would both remove longer stint strategies and often shorter ones as the gap between that new limit and the shorter stints is not enough to compensate pitstops by fuel weight alone and rain means being stuck at one compound.

If only suggesting something easy to be done and simple would be, for me, easily be done and simple I did it for sure. Especially since just turning rain races into more of the same dry ones with some graphic flair, less tyre choice and different setup or changes likely to just making matters worse won't do in my opinion.