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3rd July 2016, 15:26 #11
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3rd July 2016, 15:36 #12
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I'm not sure about Rosberg and Hülkenberg. In the first case, I'm waiting to see what the stewards have to say - he's part donkey at the very least, but I'd want to see whether his supposed brake issues were a large factor in the crash. As for the other Nico, you'd have to wonder whether he was driving an ailing car; it certainly looked like it.
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4th July 2016, 01:29 #13
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Vettel's tyre, which decided that it didn't want to be a tyre any more. Before the race, it was sitting among all the other tyres and heard tales of its great great grandad who fought in the battle of Adelaide in 1986 and also died.
The Old Republic was a stupidly run organisation which deserved to be taken over. All Hail Palpatine!
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4th July 2016, 02:07 #14
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Who else?
Hulkenberg. He threw away a great starting position." Lady - I'm in an awful dilemma.
Moe - Yeah, I never cared much for these foreign cars either."
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4th July 2016, 03:20 #15
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I will have to say Rosberg's credibility is taking a big hit right now, and I'm really tired of the Toto- Lauda-speak. Dude just tried to take The Boss out! Hulk definitely had some tire issues, but Perez seems to be driving around the same. Both cars eventually retired so I'm not sure he deserved a donkey.
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4th July 2016, 08:32 #16
I'm going with Truefan's 1 & 2.
The Mercedes strategy for Hamilton in the closing stages of this race would turn even the most rational fan into a conspiracy theorist."Every generation's memory is exactly as long as its own experience." --John Kenneth Galbraith
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4th July 2016, 15:44 #17
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Hamilton, steering into Nico R.
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4th July 2016, 17:23 #18
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Which race did you watch Mia ?
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4th July 2016, 18:45 #19
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4th July 2016, 19:18 #20
Indeed, and not just at the end. I'm still trying to figure out what the strategy was supposed to be from the start.
Hamilton stayed out for an extremely long time on the ultras for the first stint, and was giving up more than a second a lap for several laps before being called in. Combined with the botched pit stop, that handed the lead to Rosberg. Not that I'm suggesting that the slow pit stop was deliberate, because I really don't buy that, but by leaving Hamilton out for so long while his lead burned down perilously close to the pit stop delta, the strategists were counting on either
1. a perfect pit stop to give Hamilton any chance of staying in front (and it would have been close even with a record setting pit stop) or
2. a one fewer stop strategy so it wouldn't matter
so why would you burn the lead time necessary to do that if you're planning on stopping twice anyway? Not only that, but with softs for both other stints. If that was the plan, it would have been vastly more efficient in terms of time to increase the other two stints by a couple of laps each and decrease the initial ultra soft stint by four laps. I just can't see how their strategy made any sense at all...
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