TNTHead wrote: ↑03 Sep 2021, 19:07
godlameroso wrote: ↑03 Sep 2021, 17:33
Having looked at the long runs, I think the team is taking the correct approach to the weekend. Eventually everything will fall into place.
As far as I could see they only did long runs on softs? Or am I mistaking? Only soft long run would seem strange to me.
They already have a rough idea of what the other tires can do maybe. They probably just wanted to see how the softs would degrade, I'm seeing 20 laps out of them, so not quite enough to do a one stop if they do soft medium, but it will be possible with soft hard, although the hard is not nice to drive on. Medium Hard is an easy one stop, but the soft tire has a significant pace advantage over the medium and hard.
SMS or SSM is likely just as fast as a one stop because of the short pit lane. Track position will be very important for the race. 20 laps on softs and 31 laps on the medium.