Re: Russell's car too light

On 2024-07-29 03:35, Geoff wrote:

On 29/07/2024 7:44 pm, Alan wrote:

On 2024-07-28 22:22, Woozy Song wrote:

In another forum, a zillion posters said because he did 1-stop that he wore a few kg extra rubber off the tyres. But then would not the tyres be unsafe in the final laps?

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Not necessarily.
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Pirelli will have given the teams so data on how many laps the tires can run safely; which is not to say quickly.
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It was a real shame.
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Russell made a very bold call, and did make it stick on the track.
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And if Spa had the traditional cool down lap, he could probably have picked up enough rubber to have made minimum weight.

  Yes, he went pretty much straight in. But so did the others ...
 Not to suggest 1.5KG would have likely made a difference to HAM passing him.

If his car was 1.5kg lighter when it was weighed, and he wasn't carrying a different amount of fuel than Hamilton, then at every fuel load, his car was lighter.
Could 1.5kg over the entire race distance put him half a second ahead at the end? Yes.