Not only Max his physio Bradly is leaving the Red Bull Family, also Yuki's physio Michael Italiano does!
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it was pretty clear from first few lap that 2 stop strategy was the better one because of high degradation .strategy is not something you come up with before race and then apply so you need to think on your feet and look at race condition then act accordingly .yuki overachieved he made a one stop work something sainz failed in a much faster car.lewis had problems at end despite being on 2 stop so one stop was always a big ask.ME4ME wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 15:47I strongly disagree, Tost isn't a legend he is a poor leader if he's trowing one department after the other under the bus. Last year it was the design engineers that he "lost all confidence in". Now its the strategy team.
Its not that those departments and people are blameless, but they are under Tost oversight. Tost is all about retrospective blame and none about putting things right.
What Alpha Tauri has been guilty of is doing is half hearted strategies at times; neither a perfect one nor a perfect two stop. Sometimes they got forced into doing another pit stop 5-10 laps before the end because they ran out of tyres.
At least this time in Abu Dhabi they committed to a strategy.
Yuki could run his race in clean air, saved 20+sec on a pit stop and if a safety car would've come out before his stop he would've been golden. As things turned out, a two stop was maybe the better strategy, but the one stop certainly wasn't a totally stupid one.
yeah, thinking about it, I definitely agree. The window to benefit from a SC was massive, both before the stop, as well as during the final stint - when he (more or less) would have been the only one with new tires left in the pits. It potentially could have turned into a strategy to get on the podium with.ME4ME wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 15:47What Alpha Tauri has been guilty of is doing is half hearted strategies at times; neither a perfect one nor a perfect two stop. Sometimes they got forced into doing another pit stop 5-10 laps before the end because they ran out of tyres.
At least this time in Abu Dhabi they committed to a strategy.
Yuki could run his race in clean air, saved 20+sec on a pit stop and if a safety car would've come out before his stop he would've been golden. As things turned out, a two stop was maybe the better strategy, but the one stop certainly wasn't a totally stupid one.
Driver of the day. yeah baby
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.Wouter wrote: ↑27 Nov 2023, 14:00As I said before the race about the strategy:
From PlanetF1.com:
..Tost puts the blame solely on the AlphaTauri strategists.
“I’m pissed because we were too stupid to choose a correct strategy and because I had a lot of discussions on the pit wall because I said, bring Yuki in, we’re closed slowly,” he told Sky Deutschland.
“I was told that it would work out,” he added. “It’s pure arithmetic. I actually realised straight away that it probably wouldn’t work out.
“I’ll say now: A seventh place was 100 percent realistic for Yuki. Sixth, not so much, because Perez was behind us in qualifying and was simply faster [in the race]. So you had to take that into account that he was ahead.”
Sky Deutschland where he said these things:
..Franz Tost (Teamchef AlphaTauri) ...
... zum Rennen: "Ich bin stocksauer, da wir zu blöd waren, eine richtige Strategie zu wählen. Ich hatte Diskussionen an der Boxenmauer und habe gesagt, dass wir Yuki reinholen sollten. Mir wurde gesagt, dass es sich schon ausgehen würde. Das ist reine Arithmetik - ich habe erkannt, dass es wahrscheinlich sich nicht ausgehen würde. Ein siebter Platz war realistisch für Yuki. Ein sechster Platz nicht, da Perez hinter uns und einfach schneller war. Dass uns Alonso noch überholt, ist ein einfaches No-Go. Das haben wir vermurkst, weil die Herren Techniker, die stundenlang vor den Computern sitzen, es nicht hinbekommen haben, die Strategie auszurechnen, die letztendlich funktioniert."
... zur Leistung von Yuki Tsunoda: "Yuki ist ein sehr gutes Rennen gefahren. Wir müssen ihm ein gutes Auto und Strategie geben, dann ist er dabei."
...on Yuki Tsunoda's performance: "Yuki drove a very good race. We have to give him a good car and strategy, then he'll be there."
"Well, theoretically that gives him three more years
. But I see where you're coming from. Maybe I'm seeing things and he is just frustrated that they left something on the table. 
