Sieper wrote: ↑05 Jun 2023, 17:19
organic wrote: ↑05 Jun 2023, 15:35
Confirms Max's thoughts on the hard: it was just a rubbish medium. The soft-medium-soft was the optimal strategy on Sunday. Hats off to Merc strategy
When Charles had to ditch his hard tires after just 17 laps and Max having started on the 1 remaining set of yellows, I feared him on hards would be a drama and a Mercedes win was in the cards. Luckily Max was able to extract enough performance (thanks to the RB19) to keep and later expand the gap.
Did you really fear a Mercedes win?
I mean RB could do the same or even better lap times even with harder tires…
I thought Red Bull tried to do a 1-stop race by putting on the hards cause it seemed there was no point in putting hards on lap 26 from mediums! They could have gone a bit longer on the mediums to around lap 30 and then put on the hards to the end really…
Still I’m impressed why they didn’t go longer on the mediums and then just go to two sets of softs like Mercedes! I though Hamilton would use the hards too since he didn’t have new softs and they tend to only use their new sets of tires in the race! But the hards were a bad race tire probably…
Leclerc stopping on Lap 17 with hards looked so silly…but apparently his tires were already going away!