peewon wrote: ↑02 Jul 2023, 16:23
diffuser wrote: ↑01 Jul 2023, 22:18
KimiRai wrote: ↑01 Jul 2023, 18:53
But Aston makes terrible strategies, they are not at the level, etc.... Irony aside, the decision to stay in the inters was perfect and great job from both of them.
What those three teams have in common is being consistent failures in providing a great car for their drivers, it's not his fault. If Lewis had stayed for McHonda (which is a realistic possibility) I'd bet money he wouldn't have lasted for the whole 2015 season driving for a backmarker car who broke down every race, both slow and unreliable, let alone 4 years in the team working very hard despite the adversities and lack of power while you are forced to watch your old rivals win. Vettel certainly didn't last and broke down after driving two years of bad Astons despite being younger than Fernando. But sure, even though coming from a working class family of miners, I'm sure he's just an entitled diva and that's all there is to it.
Pretty good strategy today. Honestly I can't remember the last strategy decision they made that went bad?
Monaco wasn't that long ago. Miami in quali. Even today, Alonso was 1 sec behind Norris, closing in. Norris pitted and for some reason AM waited 2 more laps to pit Alonso. Gap became 8-9 seconds.
They didn't lose positions in Monaco, it didn't change the outcome and TBH it was a tough call.
I don't remember what happened in quali in Miami.
Today, when they came out after the pit stop, they were still 5 seconds behind. It wasn't a stregy issue anyways. The pit crew wasn't ready. If anything they could have used that lap to NOT double stack Stroll
The double stacking screwed Stroll's race.
If anything, I feel the engineer is asking Alonso to do to much lift a coast during the race. They find themselves too far behind to catch up in the final stint.
What hurt Alonso today:
1- Car balance on 1st stint, Hards+high fuel was bad(oversteer in some corners, understeer in others). Although, it got less pronounced on the Med, you have to believe it was still there, gutting pace.
2- Early safety car on hards, you always want to go long on hards. They would have liked to have gone another 5-10 laps on hards in that first stint. Would have had much more pace on the last 2 med stints.