diffuser wrote:SmallSoldier wrote: ↑25 Oct 2020, 16:48
What a tough race and patch of bad luck for Mclaren... Norris getting taken out by Stroll ruined his race and there wasn’t a lot he could do afterwards without a Safety Car.
Carlos drove a great race... Unlucky been lapped by Bottas and then pitting, which gave Gasly a gap that proof critical at the end.
But, the car’s pace on the mediums was decent, they were in the mix... Ahead of both RP’s and both Renaults is what was needed to keep the fight for P3 in the WCC alive.
And there are still more upgrades pending on the car that hopefully will bring that extra missing performance.
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I think the tire choice at the first pitstop(HARD) was the biggest mistake. It took Norris 3 laps to get the tires to work. I know why they made the choice, at the time they didn't know if they could make it to the end of the race on Med... Then the puncture, well, that would have gotten him anyways.
I believe they went for the Hards for 2 reasons, usually the pace settles in the midfield because teams/drivers want to extend the stints, therefore he would be on par or even slightly quicker than the cars in front since he could push those tires to the end (his pace on the Hards was on par with the people on Mediums).
On the other hand, the fact that they had to also change the nose/wing after the contact, they knew they were going to be really behind scoring positions... At that stage, playing for a potential Safety Car was the right move (after what we saw during practice, any car that would have beach itself was going to bring a Safety Car)... Been able to switch at that point to a brand new set of Mediums would have been a great advantage on everyone else (all the Medium runners would have had to go to either Softs or Hards)... I don’t think there was a lot they could have done differently... Having him on Mediums after the crash would have potentially given him a bit more pace for a few laps, but it was so early in the stint that he would have had to nurse them and therefore any pace advantage would have been negated (look at RIC, making an early stop for Mediums, close to when Lando had to pit and how his pace wasn’t that much better and even struggle a bit at the end).
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