Brundle blasts 2025 Monaco GP plans: ‘This isn’t what F1 should be’

The FIA came up with the idea to make two pit stops mandatory in Monte Carlo after the 2024 Monaco Grand Prix, with all the drivers changing their tyres after a lap 1 red flag and therefore seeing the top ten stay as it was for the rest of the race.

However, after that rule was put in effect for the race this season in the Principality, it was clear that it had some flaws. As a result, it came under fire after the race, with it only causing teams and drivers to race far slower than usual to open up pit stop windows in a strategy battle.

"I won't criticise anybody for trying in good faith to improve the show," Brundle started by saying in his column for Sky Sports.

"However, I was a little surprised that it wasn't mandated for one of those stops to be taken by, say, half distance, or maybe earlier," he continued, posing an idea that could have changed the race.

The former driver, who raced around the streets of Monte Carlo during his time in the pinnacle of motorsport, then explained why the mandatory pit stop rule failed to be of effect.

"Teams could use one car as a sacrificial lamb, driving slowly to help their other car have the necessary 21-second gap to take a pit stop. That's pretty much what happened, although the extent Racing Bulls and Williams were prepared to slow one of their cars down was quite alarming. But you can't blame them," stated the Brit.

"Instead, we saw selected cars four seconds off the pace with a frustrated queue behind them. Not pretty, or impressive, but effective for some. But hardly what F1 stands for," concluded Brundle.