Anderson/Autosport:
"At a circuit with long continuous-radius medium-speed corners like Shanghai's Turn 1/2 and Turn 13 onto the long back straight, a lot of load is put into the outside front tyre. In this case, that is the left front.
Turn 1/2 at Shanghai actually decreases in radius and comes back on itself, so in effect you are turning through something like 200 degrees, making it even worse on that left-front. If it is cold, this leads to a lot of graining which increases understeer.
- Without checking previous races: is it something like 1 SS 2xM or more stops? I think longer stints were possible but that was without SS.
- Even less excuses for Williams, new tyre rules are not enough to explain them under-performing.
- Merc > Ferrari