Re: British GP

On 8/07/2024 4:34 am, Alan wrote:

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

Exciting at the front!
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Interesting how strategy decisions have potentially strong influence on the drivers' results. As Martin Brundle reiterated: "The right tire at the right time."
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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?
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 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!

Yes, hard looked to be the right choice.
And yes, it was inevitable, but sad to see NOR simply bend over for VET like that.
Wouldn't need to be unsporting or illegal, but sure wouldn't have happened so easily if it was the other way around.
geoff