Quote Originally Posted by Hawkmoon
If they've only got 100kg of fuel what difference does it make how fast they use it? If they use it too fast they'll run out. Surely it should be up to the teams how much fuel they want to use as long as they don't exceed the maximum overall limit.

It's a shame for Ricciardo as he drove very well all weekend and put his much vaunted teammate in the shade.
You are so right on this point. Magnussen was instructed to go into a fuel saving mode around 5 laps from the finish so he would have sufficient fuel to attack in the final two laps. I would suspect that had Magnussen kept going as fast as he could to catch Riciardo, he might have run out of fuel before the end of the race.