Re: British GP

On 2024-07-07 09:09, pP85PrR wrote:

Exciting at the front!
 Interesting how strategy decisions have potentially strong influence on the drivers' results. As Martin Brundle reiterated: "The right tire at the right time."
 A personal opinion: so good not to see a sea of orange shirts setting off their orange flares. Do I remember correctly that there was a prohibition on those flares at one point in the last season or two?
 

Fantastic to have three different cars...
...(and 5 different drivers--sorry Sergio, but you're just not there at the moment)...
...all with a legitimate shot at being the fastest at any given track.
McLaren clearly got a couple of strategy calls wrong:
not double-stacking Oscar ruined his race,
and the tougher call of medium vs soft for Norris (rewatching the race fromm Norris's in-car feed shows it ended up being a joint decision with Norris first mentioning choosing the same tires as Hamilton). Piastri ended up gaining about 16-17 seconds on Norris by choosing the medium, so that choice is going to haunt Norris for a while.
But it was brilliant driving by everyone at the top.
Congrats, Lewis!