2 stops

[race_director]

schumi once won france do not remember in 4 stops. do not remember the year. it was time when we use to have real fun with no fuel limit in qualifying and drivers use to pit before 10-12 laps

[call_me_andrew]

It's important to remember that some pit roads are longer than others. 4 stops is easy at a track like Magny Cours because you spend less time at pit road speed.

[jens]

I'm quite tired of Vettel's consistently poor strategies. 3 stops definetely didn't work out and his certain P2 was thrown away. And Barrichello's 3-stop-strategy clearly wasn't the most optimal one in Spain, like some tried to say after that race.

On some circuits a 3-stopper might work, but so far this year with the rules we currently have we haven't seen it.

[AndyL]

And Barrichello's 3-stop-strategy clearly wasn't the most optimal one in Spain, like some tried to say after that race.

That was mainly discussed as part of the question of whether Brawn had deliberately given Rubens a sub-optimal strategy. What I think people were saying was that Brawn believed 3 stops to be the optimal strategy. Which they clearly did since they started both cars on that strategy.

[Sleeper]

schumi once won france do not remember in 4 stops. do not remember the year. it was time when we use to have real fun with no fuel limit in qualifying and drivers use to pit before 10-12 laps

That was 04, as discussed above, and we had the rediculess 1 at a time qualy.

[race_director]

That was 04, as discussed above, and we had the rediculess 1 at a time qualy.

that was good i say. it was man vs man. no fuel b***sht, no complaints of blocking. the best interesting part was we never knew who was going to pit when.

thanks to MAX a.k.a ( MAX the pu***) next year we would see A380 on the track with full fuel for the race. hope drivers have eject seat with parachute incase of a fire with that much fuel

[V12]

Race fuel qualifying has been around since 2003. 2002 was the last year of "proper" qualifying.

The one lap system actually suited race fuel qualifying better since there were no arguments - everyone did three laps (out, flying, in). The worst was that year (2006? 2007?) when they had that stupid "fuel credit" system, that was when I pretty much started not bothering with qualifying and just watching the race.