And Vettel is about to lap Ricciardo.zeph wrote:I bet Alonso is chewing off his beard right about now. He left Ferrari a little too soon...
You can't calculate that so easy, since he could have driven faster if he didn't have to make the tyres last for a two stopper.Just_a_fan wrote:What's interesting is that Vettel, had he gone 3 stops with the Mercedes, would be about 15s behind Hamilton. The ability to keep the tyres together allowed the quicker strategy in this case.
Meanwhile Mercedes did 5 then decided to switch. Donkey move of the century.efuloni wrote:Vettell did 18 laps with the option tyres in the beggining of the race. Great drive for Seb.
The way fortunes turn...Jonnycraig wrote:And Vettel is about to lap Ricciardo.zeph wrote:I bet Alonso is chewing off his beard right about now. He left Ferrari a little too soon...
Ferrari at Abu Dhabi 2010 was pretty poor to be fair.SectorOne wrote:Meanwhile Mercedes did 5 then decided to switch. Donkey move of the century.efuloni wrote:Vettell did 18 laps with the option tyres in the beggining of the race. Great drive for Seb.
So Alonso will shine more than ever now?ChrisM40 wrote:A bit of evidence that Vettel is no Alonso, he cant drive a difficult car, he needs a good one. He shines with a good one, but needs one.
Yes, more so as it lost them the title.Jonnycraig wrote:Ferrari at Abu Dhabi 2010 was pretty poor to be fair.SectorOne wrote:Meanwhile Mercedes did 5 then decided to switch. Donkey move of the century.efuloni wrote:Vettell did 18 laps with the option tyres in the beggining of the race. Great drive for Seb.
I think we've seen during the weekend that, tyre for tyre in "normal conditions" that the Mercedes is about 0.5s / lap quicker. So they'd have expected to have been about 25s ahead at the end of the race. But the Ferrari has managed the temperatures better which has neutralised that 0.5s/lap advantage. That's slightly simplistic, I agree, but in principle that's what has happened.henra wrote:You can't calculate that so easy, since he could have driven faster if he didn't have to make the tyres last for a two stopper.Just_a_fan wrote:What's interesting is that Vettel, had he gone 3 stops with the Mercedes, would be about 15s behind Hamilton. The ability to keep the tyres together allowed the quicker strategy in this case.