Scuderia_Russ wrote:I haven't seen his first sector time of that lap but because he started that lap before the chequered flag had dropped he was entitled to use it as another quick lap. If Schumacher had crossed the line behind him and beaten him to pole, Alonso might have been on another flying lap to reclaim pole where as Schumacher couldn't do this because when he crossed the line to complete his lap the chequered flag had already dropped. I'm guessing Alonso was probably going for it and the team would have told him not to bother once they knew that pole was secure.....if you see what I mean.
Well that doesn't make much sense either, since when the team knew he didn't have to bother anymore, he could have better just pulled into the pitlane instead of crossing the finish line again which cose him one lap of fuel
kilcoo316 wrote:I would expect they burn less fuel during the cold qualifying runs than they would in the race. He would have been running around on an economic cruise setting for the engine, using up say 1.5 kgs, but will claim back 2.5 - giving him an extra kg.
Every little helps
You may very well have solved the question here
