Re: British GP

On 10/07/2024 11:16 am, Alan wrote:

On 2024-07-09 16:13, Geoff wrote:

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...
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...(and 5 different drivers--sorry Sergio, but you're just not there at the moment)...
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...all with a legitimate shot at being the fastest at any given track.
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McLaren clearly got a couple of strategy calls wrong:
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not double-stacking Oscar ruined his race,
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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.
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But it was brilliant driving by everyone at the top.
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Congrats, Lewis!

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Surprising that none of the haters have come out with "HAM wouldn't have won if RUS hadn't been retired because Mercedes favour HAM" yet.

 Sorry... ...not a hater.
 I don't know who would have won if Russell hadn't retired.
 

Absolutely. But if RUS had been in the mix all sorts of other permuations may have eventuated. We simply can't know ;- )
geoff