organic wrote: ↑07 Jul 2024, 17:23
Juzh wrote: ↑07 Jul 2024, 17:20
This is why you dont give up position without a fight. He might have caught norris earlier and put pressure on p1, but he gave norris those seconds in first stint for free
Fighting Norris in first stint would've cost him a lot of time to Hamilton as well though, so overall it would've been marginal
Anyway good to have p2 here with suich a weak looking car for most of the race. Call by Max for inters was what rescued the race
I think we're talking too much hypothethicals in any case. The reason we're in this mess is because car is not good enough, and by a long way.
The team didn't deserve to win today, even if the actual strategy was the best of all teams. Hard tyre saved Verstappens race, but piastri on meds was quicker still, so dont get lulled into false sense of optimism.
WDC is still not in any danger and even WCC we are now even further away, so despite awful performance the weekend wasnt a total disaster.