search wrote: β03 Oct 2022, 14:17
Sieper wrote: β03 Oct 2022, 11:45
They Yuki crash moment was imho very bad for Max, who had already changed tires while Lando still had to and could now do that under VSC and retain track position.
Otherwise Max would have undercut him and be in 4th with a chance to catch Sainz who wasn't having great pace.
More likely not. The slicks still took a couple of laps to get to speed at that point. Gasly for example was very vocal about it and said the team "threw away" a good result by pitting early.
Verstappen pitted two laps later of course, but also lost 2-3s immediately after pit exit, according to live timing, so I don't think it was much different for him.
yeah, you are probably right. Mclaren made the right call there by staying out, the "opposite" action would not have worked.
Likely it was just a try by redbull to get Mclarent to pit, but why then still execute on it. Perhaps they hoped Max could make it work. Mclaren had the best hand there with track position. And track position in the hands of Lando, who I think is one of the quickest guys out there.
But in any case, if Lando had pitted first and then Yuki would have crashed we would see the "see on purpose" comments flowing in here again so I am glad that scenario did not happen. AT is not putting up hard fights with RBR but there is no foul play that I have ever seen. In fact, in canada the Yuki crash also was less then opportune for Max.