True, but that's not the delta Mercedes lost. Remember, their first pit-stop was effectively "free" and neutralized by it being under the safety car. The only thing that did cost them time, roughly ~11 seconds, was the fact that they ended up in traffic and couldn't run at their pace. So the time they lost through that "3rd pitstop" isn't 23 seconds, it's ~11.MOWOG wrote:The pit stop delta at Sepang is about 23 seconds.
There was a lot of errors in radio traffic too. On lap 42, we hear his race engineer telling him the following:MOWOG wrote:My take (assuming anyone cares) is that Mercedes gifted the race to Ferrari through poor strategy calls. In the end, they made one more pit stop than Ferrari. The pit stop delta at Sepang is about 23 seconds.
That's all she wrote.
Putting Lewis back out on hards for the end of the race just showed the team recognized they had blown it and were content to have Lewis come second. Can you imagine having all those smart types manning all those computers and crunching all those numbers and STILL getting your sums wrong? How embarrassing.......
Lap 42? There was still more than 10 laps to go. I really didn't understand why they told Lewis, there's only 5 laps remaining.Lewis you are scheduled to catch Vettel with five laps remaining.
I doubt it tbh, because after the safety car got released, the pack was really bunched up. If they would have pitted on lap 12, I think the pack would have been more stretched.Phil wrote:True, but that's not the delta Mercedes lost. Remember, their first pit-stop was effectively "free" and neutralized by it being under the safety car. The only thing that did cost them time, roughly ~11 seconds, was the fact that they ended up in traffic and couldn't run at their pace. So the time they lost through that "3rd pitstop" isn't 23 seconds, it's ~11.MOWOG wrote:The pit stop delta at Sepang is about 23 seconds.
If they hadn't pitted under the safety car, they might have had to come in on lap 12 or so (my humble guess) and then could have run two prime stints which would have enabled them to do that 2 stopper. But pitting on lap 12 would have perhaps equally put them into a bit of traffic and at a disadvantage relative to Seb, due to his better tyre wear being able to do OOP instead of OPP. I think the gap would have been quite small by the end of the race, but I still think Seb would have got it, thanks to better pace on the quicker tyre with less deg vs. Mercedes on the prime.
They meant he will catch Vettel when there are 5 laps to end of the race. Didn't mean only 5 laps were left.WaikeCU wrote:Lap 42? There was still more than 10 laps to go. I really didn't understand why they told Lewis, there's only 5 laps remaining.Lewis you are scheduled to catch Vettel with five laps remaining.
yep, and can you blame them ?Vettel Maggot wrote:Don't worry, according to the viewing figures a lot of people have already taken your advice.giantfan10 wrote:to the complainers... you really dont have to watch if you dont like what you see
I feel the same, poor Alonso ! Sadly I myself have no expectation or hope whatsoever that Honda is hiding anything. They just got it all wrong. McL is showing their best, fighting with Manormax_speed wrote:how come alonso keep making wrong career decisions at very apt time ?. that guy will be wearing a smirk but deep down the heart he knows . he is not going to win soon unless honda is hiding something behind their reliability woes. i still feel mercedes complacency cost them a win, they did nt see it coming and from next race onwards they will not look silly but boy feeling so sorry for fernando , he leaves and that index figure with yesss rises again..
bad luck ? I mean do you recall anything from last year ? with that sort of performance it is a miracle Ferrari even gave him another chance this year. Of course, as #2 nonetheless.SectorOne wrote:Not sure how you have managed to come to that conclusion. Hes had some bad luck, thats it.
I'm not sure how you can come to the conclusion that they have the most powerful and advanced PU. They can talk the talk but that doesn't mean anything. We haven't seen anything special from them yet.ChrisM40 wrote:I dont think Honda got it all wrong as such, they probably have the most powerful and advanced PU on the grid, it just cant handle being in an actual car!
The PU can only be as advanced & as powerful as wat the regulations and fuel flow restrictions allow.ChrisM40 wrote:I dont think Honda got it all wrong as such, they probably have the most powerful and advanced PU on the grid, it just cant handle being in an actual car!