2013 Bahrain Grand Prix tyre strategies and pit stops

19 comments on “2013 Bahrain Grand Prix tyre strategies and pit stops”

1. 

   Candice
   22nd April 2013, 15:42

   Lotus’ pit stop were plain miserable among the front runners.
   1. 

      Aish Heydrich (@aish)
      22nd April 2013, 18:11

      Yep. Goes to show how awesome the rest of the team are.
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      Lari (@lari)
      23rd April 2013, 6:30

      @Candice Yes, Lotus just keeps being bad at pitstops, if I don’t remember too wrong they’ve been average of the bottom 4 teams in terms of pitstop speeds all this year. Lets say they lose an average of 1 second per pitstop to fastest teams and lets say they make 3 stops, it’s 3 seconds given to the competitions just with pitstops. Now *if* you can catch your competition at the pace of, lets say 0.2sec per lap, it takes 15 laps to just get that lost time from pitstop back. Are the Lotus pitcrew even lifting?
2. 

   Chris (@tophercheese21)
   22nd April 2013, 15:47

   I like that there’s a wide variety in strategy calls (I.e. 2, 3, & 4 stops), but I still feel that 4 stops is just too much.

   If they make the soft and/or super-soft compounds more durable, then I think we’d see 1,2 & 3 stoppers, which is better, and slightly easier to follow as a viewer.
3. 

   Mike Dee (@mike-dee)
   22nd April 2013, 17:41

   VDG used all his tyres in the race probably…
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      Aish Heydrich (@aish)
      22nd April 2013, 18:10

      of course. 3 sets of each. Nobody told him to not splurge on tyres. It was like buffet for a starving homeless, he really helped himself there.
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   sato113 (@sato113)
   22nd April 2013, 18:14

   Alonso didnt change his tyres at his 2nd stop, to anyone wondering why it looks like he used 4 sets of hards.
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   Traverse (@)
   22nd April 2013, 18:38

   Surely the Bahrain tyre strategy for all the teams was to cross their fingers, and hope to god that these papier-mache tyres don’t disintegrate, blow-up and send the drivers careering into the spectators!
   1. 

      DaveF1 (@davef1)
      22nd April 2013, 21:31

      What spectators?
      1. 

         Traverse (@)
         23rd April 2013, 0:07

         LOL
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   Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
   22nd April 2013, 20:40

   3 stops is too much on the hardest tyres in the range – that needs to get sorted! Also, am I right in saying on those 3 occasions it was Webber’s stop that was fastest @keithcollantine? As in Webber had the fastest stop of the race in the last three races?
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      Mike Dee (@mike-dee)
      22nd April 2013, 20:54

      Red Bull is pretty unfair, continuously favouring one driver over the other.
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         Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
         23rd April 2013, 21:10

         @mike-dee – precisely, there’s a definite no.2 here :P
      2. 

         Drop Valencia!
         24th April 2013, 7:52

         to be fair Vettel was in a very comfortable position all race, so the pitstop crew maybe erred on the side of caution, but I have to agree that it is fantastic that Webber is finally getting all the quickstops!.
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   Mike Dee (@mike-dee)
   22nd April 2013, 21:15

   We can be pretty happy that we did not have the soft tyres here. The medium lasted only mostly 9 to 15 laps (MAS managed 21 though), compared to China where they lasted mostly 13-20 laps – so around 25% less.

   In China, the soft lasted mostly 4 to 7 laps – imagine how fast it would have disintegrated in Bahrain!
   1. 

      Sri Harsha (@harsha)
      23rd April 2013, 8:39

      Drivers : Soft Tires are shot by Pit Exit
8. 

   Nigel Bates (@nigel1)
   22nd April 2013, 21:32

   Why did Mercedes run their second stints on the option ?
   No other team did this, and it surely cost them lap time.
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      Nigel Bates (@nigel1)
      22nd April 2013, 21:36

      (Edit)
      Hamilton’s second stint.
      (Though Rosberg also used only two sets of the hard tyre).
9. 

   @HoHum (@hohum)
   23rd April 2013, 17:35

   Webbers last stint showed that 20 laps was at least 1 to many.

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