Maybe they quickly realised that the tyre wasn’t going to go to the end and it was better use to drive it as hard as possible (hence the fastest lap of the race)
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Charles Leclerc won the Bahrain Grand Prix, leading it from start to finish. Though Verstappen was his closest challenger, a late technical retirement allowed Sainz to make it a brilliant 1-2 finish for Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton joins the podium in third place.
Maybe they quickly realised that the tyre wasn’t going to go to the end and it was better use to drive it as hard as possible (hence the fastest lap of the race)
Selected radio broadcasts from FOM. It's looked like others have been doing similar at T4 too. No doubt others will also be getting the message.
Guess they cant show them all on TV.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑20 Mar 2022, 18:04Selected radio broadcasts from FOM. It's looked like others have been doing similar at T4 too. No doubt others will also be getting the message.
with DRS Lewis could barely get along side Alpha Tauri after the straight, so they definitely have issues on the PU side, as was evident after testing, and fixing porposing meant lower downforce over all (I suspect they raised the car to not get into the resonance window), and hence they thought the hard tire will work out better instead of mediums, softer tyres would simply burn up for themHoffman900 wrote: ↑20 Mar 2022, 17:58Merc seems to have enough pace over the ones behind but not enough to fight, that they seem happy to be using this as a test session.
Strange I thought they would try an overcut on Sainz101FlyingDutchman wrote: ↑20 Mar 2022, 18:04Maybe they quickly realised that the tyre wasn’t going to go to the end and it was better use to drive it as hard as possible (hence the fastest lap of the race)
Yes, Crofty was shouting about Hamilton “charging past” while his moderate progress alongside the Haas didn’t see to warrant the excitement…Just_a_fan wrote: ↑20 Mar 2022, 17:59Even with DRS, Lewis struggled to get by Kevin on the main straight. Good to see he could follow close in the last corner, however. The new regs are working as advertised, it seems.
Mogster wrote: ↑20 Mar 2022, 18:08Yes, Crofty was shouting about Hamilton “charging past” while his moderate progress alongside the Haas didn’t see to warrant the excitement…Just_a_fan wrote: ↑20 Mar 2022, 17:59Even with DRS, Lewis struggled to get by Kevin on the main straight. Good to see he could follow close in the last corner, however. The new regs are working as advertised, it seems.
Well, if he was to pit and take on another set of softs, it was cost him the good part of 25 seconds or so? He'd have to be at least 2 seconds a lap faster with about 15 laps remaining to have any kind of chance to make an undercut work... He'd surely take second place regardless with a big enough gap between Sainz and Perez... and surely take the fastest lap for the extra point.