Yahoo Sports· 2h ago· 1 min read
Eleven rounds into 2026, the numbers say the sport’s strategic instincts are out of date. The undercut is succeeding at 86 percent, far above its 2022-2025 average. Seventy-nine driver-races have been completed on a single pit stop. The hard tyre has worn out faster than the medium at five of eleven circuits, upending the hierarchy every strategy model was built on.
This is F1 Chronicle’s half-season data review: every figure below is our own analysis of official F1 timing data, dry sessions only, caution laps excluded, with sample sizes disclosed throughout…
The undercut has succeeded in 43 of 50 close pit battles in 2026, an 86.0 percent success rate against the 2022-2025 era’s 68.7 percent (n=725). Seventy-nine driver-races have been completed on one-stop strategies across seven circuits, including eighteen at Suzuka and sixteen at Miami. The hard compound has degraded faster than…
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