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Toto said they didn't care about a 2 3 only a win, but as it turned out putting him on reds was more likely to achieve that, but it wouldn't have anyway.
Poll: Dutch Grand Prix 2022, Circuit Zandvoort - Race 15
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No. Max was obviously going to pit for softs, and win anyway.
The only proper play was to pit both for softs and all but secure 2nd and 3rd.
There was no way a Merc was going to win.
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To be fair though they beat everyone except Max.
But there was no scenario where they win, apart from a mistake/Technical issue. Either they were all on softs and Max stays ahead and wins, or Max is in 3rd on softs but breezes by them
There’s been a lot of talk on how long the Mercs take to get their tyres going. In all seriousness it seems like they forgot that part?
Yeh. I don't know what Toto/Merc were thinking. Splitting the strategy was literally the worst thing they could do. It left Lewis out to dry with Max right behind him with no buffer of Russell. It essentially doomed him to 4th (with Lecerc on softs too).
They should have put them both on softs like everyone else.
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Could they have though. They were behind the safety car and coming through the pit lane. Don't think double stacking was possible.
Maybe if they'd thought of it soon enough and got George to backup enough.
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Agreed. Though merc threw away a 2&3, it was great to see some real race pace. The cars will hopefully give some close racing between 3 teams toward the end of the season for exciting races. Not that anyone will be able to challenge MV (unless we have several reliability/DNFs), but such an improvement from the season start when getting in to Q2 was a challenge.
I’d like to think so, and all I can do is be optimistic for next year and the championship for Merc. But in reality these new car regs seem to make all car performance so variable. You get excited by one performance and then on the next track they’re struggling.
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That seems mostly like a good thing, no? Changing the balance of power between tracks makes things more interesting.
That said: I expect the degree of variation will decline as teams master the new regs.
I've since revised my estimate to zero. I reckon George could have backed Max up half a lap, which would be illegal anyway, Max would have overtaken him before turn 1 (just like Lewis), then he would have caught Lewis in maybe 2 laps, had DRS and overtaken him with even more ease.
If Merc could fuel their cars on blind optimism from fans, they'd beat Elon to Mars.
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Any news yet on what the hell was going on at AlphaTauri with Yuki's car?
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Marko was on the radio to Yuki.
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Stopped on track as thought a wheel was loose following the pit stop, he was then ready to abandon the car, hence undoing his seatbelts when pit wall then radioed to say telemetry on wheels looked ok.
Pitted again to change tyres precautionary as well as to do seatbelts back up, but then turned out to be an Issue with the differential causing wheel spin in only 1 wheel, and "drifting to one side" issues.
Tsunoda explains reason for ‘controversial’ stoppage
AlphaTauri driver Yuki Tsunoda has revealed that he felt that something had broken at the rear of his F1 car before his retirement at the Dutch Grand Prix.
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AlphaTauri investigating Tsunoda’s 'drifting' car issue that led to VSC
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Soldato
Stopped on track as thought a wheel was loose following the pit stop, he was then ready to abandon the car, hence undoing his seatbelts when pit wall then radioed to say telemetry on wheels looked ok.
Pitted again to change tyres precautionary as well as to do seatbelts back up, but then turned out to be an Issue with the differential causing wheel spin in only 1 wheel, and "drifting to one side" issues.
Tsunoda explains reason for ‘controversial’ stoppage
AlphaTauri driver Yuki Tsunoda has revealed that he felt that something had broken at the rear of his F1 car before his retirement at the Dutch Grand Prix.AlphaTauri investigating Tsunoda’s 'drifting' car issue that led to VSC
Thanks.
Clearly the diff issue was incredibly obvious to Yuki, madness that the engineers couldn't see it through data the first time.
Soldato
The only way Lewis could have won it was if George played the ultimate wingman role and did some really sketchy driving to try to hold Max up. And it'd have to be really bad to have worked. Double moves, running him off the track.
Perez has done it for Max.
Alonso did it for Ocon.
I don't think George is 'that guy'.
Perez has done it for Max.
Alonso did it for Ocon.
I don't think George is 'that guy'.
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Thought it was a great race, but a poor track. The only real overtaking spot being the start line pretty much makes this a duff track for F1. Really nice to see Mercedes making actual improvements still. Fully expect them to be back in it next year.
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