A rules tweak made for the 2024 F1 season may have resulted in the lack of track action during the second practice session in Japan.
The second practice session at Suzuka ended up being
extremely quiet – despite the conditions seemingly being ideal for intermediate
tyre running, the teams appeared reluctant to send their drivers out to splash
around, and a recent rule change may be to blame.
FIA tweak wet tyre rules for 2024
Having experimented with alternative tyre allocations during
2023, some allocation tweaks were made for ’24.
Article 30.2.ii of the FIA Sporting Regulations states that
“at each Competition where a sprint session is not scheduled, each driver may
use no more than thirteen (13) sets of dry-weather tyres, five (5) sets of
intermediate tyres and two (2) sets of wet-weather tyres during a Competition.
