Soldato
Who are those (marketing?) people who attend drivers when they are being interviewed?
Why are they there, what are they doing?
Why are they there, what are they doing?
Poll: Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2018, Baku - Race 4/21
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Soldato
It wouldn't have mattered. The soft tyres were the wrong tyres to be on (but the only choice Hamilton had after his lock-up), so even if Hamilton passed Bottas after Bottas' stop, then Bottas would have come back at him.
Of course Bottas wouldn't have won without the safety car, but he would almost certainly have beaten Hamilton, if the team allowed it.
I was going to say "maybe it's that mentality that they are racing drivers and we are not!"
Still looks to have really backfires.
The strategy was wrong in China, was wrong today again.
He tried a very risky maneuveur with cold tyres.
In order to win, he must be not only brave but also smart.
That's my point. Without the safety car he wouldn't have won, even on US, which I assumed is what you meant.
But I certainly think he would have had Hamilton.
Sorry I'm confused, are you referring to Vettels strategy being wrong today?
Yes this I agree with.
But not Vettel. He was too further ahead to be caught.
E: Apologies multipost - should've edited my previous posts.
Yes, he pitted a little bit early and they chose the wrong set of tyres. I expected that they would stay on the track a little bit more and than push for very fast laps on the ultra soft.
That is very easy. I don't understand are the guys who make these decisions so stupid or what.
Caporegime
Drivers seem to lose about 21s to a pit stop. Bottas was over 12s ahead. At over a second a lap, that doesn't take long to catch.
But were the US definitely a second a lap faster? Not including time lost getting the tyres up to temperature?
(Id like to see the times of the US runners compared to what they were doing - i.e. RBR)
Caporegime
What for?
Lap 1 incident with Alonso and Hulkenberg I think.
Man of Honour
He drove into the back of Perez
Soldato
4 races in and every team's scored points. When was the last time that happened? Can't remember that feat any earlier myself.
Man of Honour
Just noticed this on the bbc feed
But they're also numbers players, this is where people like Alonso and Hamilton excel, whereas Vettel and Verstappen seem impetuous, sometimes you need to think of the longer game. I could imagine both Ham and Alonso the Ferrari with the pace in Sector 2 choosing to not gamble on that lap after the SC and get as close as possible into the last sector on the next lap around.
I must also say that this track has really delivered having multiple corners in sector 1 and 3 built for setting up overtakes and the DRS was pretty much spot on today with cars on the same tyres/strategy being able to pull alongside but with more to do in the braking zone/line it up for a few corners time.
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