The problem was, Kimi got stuck behind lapped cars when he came out of the pits.
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The problem was, Kimi got stuck behind lapped cars when he came out of the pits.
I think this Monaco grandprix highlights why l admire Ferrari as team but would never be a Ferrari fan. The main difference between the Vettel and Raikonen strategies were that Kimi was pitted into traffic and Vettel was not. On a track like Monaco where passing lapped cars is time costly, it is hard not to see that Ferrari favored Vettel to win the race. I don't buy the claim that they did not know it would turn out as it did. That would be an open acceptance that they have an idiot for a strategist.
And your post would be completely valid had they pitted Vettel the lap after they pitted Raikkonen. Instead they left him out until he was sure he would get by in the pits. I'm sure that had Raikkonen come out of the pits ahead of Vettel they would have simply told Raikkonen "Vettel is faster than you". The way it panned out now they were able to convince all the malleable folks it wasn't pre planned.
If Ferrari were simply going to ask Raikkonen to move over they would have done so and not played games with pit stops. There's a piece on JAonF1 that looks at the situation from both sides of the arguments. It won't change your mind I'm sure but it's worth a read.