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Well said. It's common to see half pit stop times under VSC. If it costs 24 seconds for a pit stop, odds are it will cost around 12 seconds under the VSC. Add a safety margin and you ll see your driver remain ahead. It's no more complicated than elementary school maths. Of course for us simpletons, hindsight is 20/20. But the team is getting millions upon millions spent on them, and this level of incompetence at such a level is unacceptable imho.eleventenths wrote: ↑27 Mar 2018, 02:51Vettel didn't win in Australia by luck or some "Computer Glitch". He won because Mercedes were incompetent. There was only one way Vettel was going to win that race, and it zoomed into focus as Vettel led the race. Between Brackley and Albert Park, Mercedes had over 20 staff dedicated to race strategy. It is very simple optimization problem in which Lewis had to maintain a certain speed to ensure he would be ahead of Vettel in the event a saftey car was called. Track and race specific values should have been input into an algorithm with a safety factor added based on the relative distance between the drivers - it is not rocket science. This nonsense about a computer glitch is idiotic because a computer cannot give the wrong answer unless incorrect values were input or the algorithm was wrong. So someone at Mercedes clearly f**cked up and it was NOT the computer's fault!
it had everything to do with that, Mercedes screwed up by not taking it into account. hamilton should have been a few seconds closer to Vettel to mitigate a VSCgraham.reeds wrote: ↑27 Mar 2018, 07:36And it had nothing to do with Vettel lucking in to the VSC and accelerating after the first safety car line into the pits to make the gap to come out into the lead?
This doesn't make any sense whatsoever. What if there's a crash between the safety car line and the pits ? That means you can still go at full speed without fear of reprisal. That's a clear oversight from the rule maker that should be addressed, and the solution is quite straightforward: You maintain your on track speed in that section.bonjon1979 wrote: ↑27 Mar 2018, 10:01I think that they failed to take into account that once you cross the safety car line you can go as quick as you like to the pits. Likewise, when you leave the pits you don’t have to obey vsc rules until safety car line. The 2 seconds needed were made up there. Human error.
Dead On!DiogoBrand wrote: ↑27 Mar 2018, 08:29It is obvious to most people that it was just an error of the strategy department at Mercedes. The reason they blamed a software is simple: Now that the mistake is made there's no benefit in pointing fingers, so rather than create an internal conflict that would do them more harm than good, they're just gonna learn from it and move on, since they're still clear favorites to win both championships.
Part of the reason for Mercedes' success is that their management is well beyond the point where they would lose focus due to such details.
Once you cross the safety car line you're already on pit entry. Unless an accident happened inside the pitlane there's no danger at all in going fast into the pit entry.Shrieker wrote: ↑27 Mar 2018, 12:01This doesn't make any sense whatsoever. What if there's a crash between the safety car line and the pits ? That means you can still go at full speed without fear of reprisal. That's a clear oversight from the rule maker that should be addressed, and the solution is quite straightforward: You maintain your on track speed in that section.bonjon1979 wrote: ↑27 Mar 2018, 10:01I think that they failed to take into account that once you cross the safety car line you can go as quick as you like to the pits. Likewise, when you leave the pits you don’t have to obey vsc rules until safety car line. The 2 seconds needed were made up there. Human error.