matthewr
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He’s become a parent too which must have an effect somewhere.
Yeah, the baby seat adds at least five 100ths
He’s become a parent too which must have an effect somewhere.
And don’t forget the feeding bottles & nappies.Yeah, the baby seat adds at least five 100ths
How was Hamilton able to catch Le Clerc towards the end? I watched the race on Channel 4 but because I was on the phone to a mate about work stuff, I had the sound on mute and only glanced over now and again so I didn't really follow what was happening. It was obvious from early on that he had the pace to get close to Vettel and it seemed pit-stop strategy helped him complete the overtake. Was the same pit-stop the reason why he gained so much on Le Clerc who seemed practically uncatchable at the start of the race not to mention unbeatable on Saturday?
Essentially the Ferrari had huge single lap pace but at the cost of taking lots or life out of the tyres. They also have very high top speed and relatively slippy aero that allowed them to make up chunks of time on the straights. The Merc had much better pace in the middle sector but not enough to compensate for the time taken out of them in sectors 1 and 3. That was in qualifying.
In the race, eating up the tyres was a bigger concern for Ferrari as they could not sustain their pace for long without losing even more time in sector 2 due to the shagged out tyres. VET seemed to suffer more that LEC in this but even LEC was in more or less permanent tyre management for the whole race.
Ham got past VET because he harried him so hard on better tyres (6 laps younger) forcing VET to use his battery up in sector 3 so he could not hold him off in the following sector 1. Without that as we saw in previous laps the Ferrari even without DRS was quicker than the Merc with DRS.
By the last 10 laps HAM and LEC had similar life out of their tyres but the Merc was looking after them better so HAM could push hard right to the end whilst LEC was nursing and if VET had not kept HAM at bay for so long he probably would have succumbed to HAM.
There is a case for saying that HAM should have pitted around 2 laps earlier and he would have been even closer to VET and LEC but hindsight etc.
Hamilton was telling the pits that his rear tyres weren’t too good a few laps before the end, so putting earlier might have been asking too much. Close stuff, love it.
Verstappen and Gasly starting from the back of the Monza grid, too many lumps of donk used this year.
Bummer.
Verstappen and Gasly starting from the back of the Monza grid, too many lumps of donk used this year.
Bummer.
Verstappen and Gasly starting from the back of the Monza grid, too many lumps of donk used this year.
Bummer.
Verstappen and Gasly starting from the back of the Monza grid, too many lumps of donk used this year.
Bummer.