Originally Posted by Garry Walker
You`ll bite? :rotflmao:
Look, you clearly dont understand strategy at all.
1)Alonso had tyre issues on friday, the softs were not lasting at all well for him (or felipe). They were not sure how long they were going to be able to go on them.
2) Webber, once past JA, was showing very quick pace, including doing a purple in S3 that was 1 second faster than anyone elses time in that sector. One more lap for FA and Webbo would have been so close to him that once pitted, FA would have come out behind Webbo.
Now this is where tyre issues came to play, because if Alonso had experienced the kind of tyre issues with softs that he had on friday, he most likely would have started going slower than Rosberg and Petrov on hard tyres. So ferrari took the risk that they could get past Rosberg and Petrov instead of gambling on softs tyres lasting.