After these few races Leclerc was in the lead by 40 points. I too thought the title winner was picked but nothing was further from the truth. A great year and on the the last race.
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The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix turned out to be a tyre management race which Max Verstappen easily controlled to take victory and finish the season on a high. Charles Leclerc made a single-stop strategy work and finished second, just ahead of Sergio Perez.
After these few races Leclerc was in the lead by 40 points. I too thought the title winner was picked but nothing was further from the truth. A great year and on the the last race.
Dan vs Norris is so embarrassing.
Toto plays a mental game as well as a physical one. I'm willing to bet he would like to thumb Binotto's eye by beating them to P2 after the start of the year they had. Ferrari lose P2. Binotto get's sacked. The enemy is destabilized. This can be worth more than the WT time.
3 reasons they could start on M tyres: Ted Kravitz spoke with some teams saying it's a close call between 1 and 2 stops, then Mexico 2022 and last but not least last year race...AR3-GP wrote: ↑20 Nov 2022, 00:50Mercedes will be incredibly vulnerable on the opening lap if they start on mediums. Two big straights and they are parachutes with wheels. The time they lose fussing with the midfielders like Norris will take away the advantage of starting on mediums. The trick to starting on mediums is not throwing away all the time you were suppose to gain over the stint, in the opening lap.atanatizante wrote: ↑20 Nov 2022, 00:13Seeing the top speeds after qualy we could see that in the last 8 places there are both Merc, Macca and Aston Martin drivers... then taking into account what Leclerc said about medium tyres after FP2 race sim laps and what Pirelli saying tomorrow it will be a 2 stop race due to being wrong for bringing a step to softer tyres here, then I think that Merc and the customer teams will try to do a one-stop race... for Merc works team it's a no brainer to start on M tyres (the have no stress from behind) followed by a 1 stop for hard tyres bearing in mind that all year (and especially lately) they were kinder to the tyres, then the delta time between hard and soft tyres are within 5 tenths here with C5-C4 and C3 tyres and last but not least for the fact that last year the choosed the same strategy and had a better race pace compared to RB, at least from HAM point of view...
And they are running most conservative engine. Ofc they will clip earlier. It all comes to engine usage.atanatizante wrote: ↑20 Nov 2022, 00:31Worth mentioning that from the top 3 teams in qualy Ferrari was clipping first one down the straights with RB being the last, obviously...
