runningmanz wrote: ↑01 Aug 2022, 08:06
SmallSoldier wrote: ↑01 Aug 2022, 07:30
runningmanz wrote: ↑01 Aug 2022, 01:51
Yeah I said before the last stop please not hards, but I guess they thought it was the best at the time with the remaining tyres left. DId he not have some softs left to go on? He needs more mediums until they can figure out why he has trouble making the hards work at times imo
We need to always keep context in mind… Daniel pitted in Lap 46 for his set of Hards, he pitted ahead of Stroll, Vettel and Gasly… Therefore, there was no way for the team to know which tires each one of those were planning on running.
In addition, neither Daniel nor Lando had new sets of Softs available, they had 1 new set of Mediums and 1 of Hard for the race.
Finally, Lando pitted on lap 42 for Hards and did laps of 1:24.2 and 1:23.7 while Daniel was running 1:25.0… During the last stint, Lando was running on the mid 1:23.XX while Daniel’s best lap on the Hards was a 1:24.3 and he was running really on the mid to high’s 1:24.XX… Going for the Hards wasn’t really the issue as proven by his Team Mate
They should have gambled on used softs imo, they could see other teams having trouble on the hards. They always play it too safe and more often than not Dan has trouble in the McLaren warming up the hards. Would have preferred him to go out swinging on used softs and defending near the end if need be which he is good at rather than skating around on hard tyres losing alot of time.
Again Lando came out around cars that were on 30+ lap mediums not really under any pressure and able to ideally warm up the hards. Dan came out with Stroll on new softs and Vettel on new mediums breathing down his neck and also Gasly coming at him with new softs. Not the same situation. In hindsight it was the wrong call by the team to put him on hards. Like I said a gamble every now and then would be preferable to playing it safe all the time and still screwing up strategy more often than not.
It’s easy to be General after the battle, knowing what the others would do and knowing how much the tires would last definitely helps make the right call
But, the Team had data at their disposal, they had the Soft tires they used in the first stint and that were changed in 14 laps… Maybe with the data at their disposal they didn’t think the Softs would last 24 laps?
The funny thing is that you say “Gamble with Daniel every once in a while”, if they do and he has a bad race because of it, the message is “The team is screwing Daniel”… If they play it “Safe” and the result isn’t good, then the “The team is screwing Daniel”.
At the end of the day, on the same strategy, on the same car, on the same weekend his Team Mate ended P7 and way ahead up the road… Daniel’s result is of his own doing and because of his lack of performance, not the Team’s fault or the strategy.