2016 Austrian Grand Prix - Spielberg, Fri 01 – Sun 03 Jul 2016

[domh245]

Well... He stretched His stint, but His laptime weren't that bad

29 laps is nothing omg. His pace was better than everyone else apart from mercs, red bulls and kimi. Hamilton did only a few less on ultra soft. This is purely pireshit's own fault.

There is a reason Hamilton (and everybody else) did a few less laps. Else the tire would explode. It isn't the first time Ferrari tried to stretch tire life beyond its limits.

But the tyre should fall off the cliff, not explode.

Trying to think about it, could the curbs be at fault for this?

[Juzh]

Well... He stretched His stint, but His laptime weren't that bad

29 laps is nothing omg. His pace was better than everyone else apart from mercs, red bulls and kimi. Hamilton did only a few less on ultra soft. This is purely pireshit's own fault.

There is a reason Hamilton (and everybody else) did a few less laps. Else the tire would explode. It isn't the first time Ferrari tried to stretch tire life beyond its limits.

Hahaha so tires should just explode without explanation when they're supposedly finished? Sure. There should be a performance drop off, of which there was almost none. There was actually no reason for vettel to pit on performance reason. 30 laps in not all that many around this track.

[LionKing]

Well... He stretched His stint, but His laptime weren't that bad

29 laps is nothing omg. His pace was better than everyone else apart from mercs, red bulls and kimi. Hamilton did only a few less on ultra soft. This is purely pireshit's own fault.

There is a reason Hamilton (and everybody else) did a few less laps. Else the tire would explode. It isn't the first time Ferrari tried to stretch tire life beyond its limits.

No, they did not pit so that they won't explode, they pitted for performance reasons. Race tires should not suddenly explode like that...

[ripper]

Hamilton did few less lap but he was on a softer compound

[LionKing]

Rosberg is faster even with quite a bit older tires.

[Tauri_J]

Ham is not gonna win

[henra]

Rosberg is faster even with quite a bit older tires.

Plus a slightly damaged car.
If the tyres don't explode

[Phil]

Think rosberg has this if the tires last. Dont think they will pit him again.

[Phil]

Omg, what in gods name did Mercedes do?

[Tauri_J]

Poor lewie

[ripper]

Different compound.... Well...

[Phil]

There are going to be fireworks post race.

[hollowBallistix]

Well they've screwed Lewis, Ros has won this & the championship.

[Tauri_J]

Joke of a team

[matt_b]

Nico has this in the bag, not sure why they let Nico get ahead in the opening stint, you could see the gap getting smaller a smaller each lap. That's racing though.