Aggressive two-stop plan helps Raikkonen to fourth

12 comments on “Aggressive two-stop plan helps Raikkonen to fourth”

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   Ricardo Ferreira (@yes-master)
   24th August 2014, 21:32

   Was there a strong reason to make Vettel change the medium tyres to soft, after only 12 laps? Or was it just a bad call/strategy from the team? I believe he lost there the chance to fight for a place in the podium.
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      Bookgrub
      25th August 2014, 0:08

      It seemed to me watching that Vettel struggled with his tyres all race. Not particularly surprising, given how minimal his dry-weather running had been during practice. I imagine he had to use Ricciardo’s data to set his own car up and then compromise that setup somewhat for wet qualifying. Not ideal, especially given it seems that he and Ricciardo tend to drive the car differently.

      To be on the podium he would have had to fight Bottas, and I don’t think he had the pace to do that.
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         kartik
         25th August 2014, 2:49

         @yes-master
         Vet ran Ric settings for tires , hence he couldn’t extract the grip like Ric was.
         1. 

            Bookgrub
            25th August 2014, 5:22

            @kartik

            Do you have a link for that? I’d be really interested to read a little more about it, but none of the (small number) of F1 sites I read has covered that aspect yet.
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            Ricardo Ferreira (@yes-master)
            25th August 2014, 10:05

            Bookgrub, kartik, that would explain it. And in that perspective, he probably should have decided to maintain the soft tyres in the 2nd pit stop and change to medium only in the 3rd. And, yes, there was Bottas, who was quite faster then him. So, in the end, the chances would still be less then 20%. Vettel needs to do more and better. But somehow I can’t imagine him doing it this year.
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      TMF (@)
      26th August 2014, 8:29

      @yes-master – Vettel had some troubles either with the car or his setup respectively both.
      He was constantly 1s down in S2 compared to RIC on equal tyres so I’d say he just couldn’t get the tyres or the car working in the same way RIC did in the downforce sections and due to sliding had probably a higher degradation rate.
      1. 

         Ricardo Ferreira (@yes-master)
         28th August 2014, 10:59

         @tmf42, I think some light has been brought to this matter: Team principal Christian Horner said Vettel’s form was so unusual at Spa that he suspects something was broken on the car.
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   bull mello (@bullmello)
   25th August 2014, 0:05

   Glad to see Raikkonen have a bit better race today. At least they tried a different strategy, maybe it did help. He was ahead of Bottas until the tires faded. At least he had a chance to drive well on a track he performs well on.
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   @HoHum (@hohum)
   25th August 2014, 0:37

   @keithcollantine, ? How did MB change ROSs wing without loseing more time ?
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      @HoHum (@hohum)
      25th August 2014, 1:03

      OK, see it down the bottom.
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   Wais (@itswais77)
   25th August 2014, 9:31

   Sutil is actually stupid, he had the prime tyres, he should’ve stayed out an extra 5-10 laps, so that costed him 12th-13th for Sauber.
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   ColdFly F1 (@)
   31st August 2014, 18:04

   Did Bianchi do 22 laps on the softs (on a full tank)?
   That would be amazing, longer than what all but KR did on the mediums (on emptier tanks)!

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