2016 Bahrain Grand Prix tyre strategies and pit stops

14 comments on “2016 Bahrain Grand Prix tyre strategies and pit stops”

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   Rick Lopez (@viscountviktor)
   3rd April 2016, 21:35

   Williams really messed up the strategy here, sadly not for the first time, the medium tyre was the worst tyre to be on, and Massa was on it for two stints.

   On the other hand, as a Williams fan I’m really glad to see their pit stops are better than last year, two of the top three is great. Well done Williams.
   1. 

      F1 in Figures (@f1infigures)
      3rd April 2016, 22:21

      Their pitstops were very good indeed.
      This race the Williamses seemed quite hard on their tires, just like the previous years. So maybe they switched them to the mediums to trade tire longevity for speed, which was clearly not the right strategy (though in Australia it worked quite well for them).
      This year’s tire rules are great because they allow drivers who are kind on their tires to try really aggressive strategies, like Grosjean did. He managed to keep the supersoft tires alive and he was rewarded with a tremendous race pace.
2. 

   Patrick (@paeschli)
   3rd April 2016, 21:37

   4 stops for Hülkenberg? What were they thinking?
   1. 

      moctecus (@moctecus)
      4th April 2016, 18:47

      Hülkenberg had to pit on lap 1 after damaging his front wing in a collision. He was effectively on a 3-stop-strategy. Perez also damaged his front wing just one lap later and was thus effectively on a 2-stop-strategy. Neither strategies worked very well for them. Once they had caught up with the field they ruined their tyres in traffic.
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   Melvin (@)
   3rd April 2016, 21:55

   I do wonder if Verstappen would have pitted around the same time as Grosjean he could have cached him. Grosjean did win a lot of time with the undercut. Not sure why Massa went medium – medium.
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      GechiChan (@gechichan)
      4th April 2016, 11:09

      As in Melbourne, the strategy kind of robbed Max of a better result. They probably hoped to get to the end by using the mediums he put on at the second stop, but ended up pitting again very late for supersofts.

      I don’t get why Torro Roso keeps trying to use tire-managing strategies for Max, when he is such a great overtaker. He proved again that if he is on the fastest tire available, he can make his way through slower cars on different strategies with ease.
4. 

   Euro Brun (@eurobrun)
   3rd April 2016, 22:52

   Friendly suggestion…
   Any chance the tyre strategy table above could have some sort of colour coding for the different compounds to make for easier reading?
   Cheers

   I’m enjoying the choice of three tyres, but really wish they would drop the ‘must use at least one designated compound’ rule.
5. 

   Arnoud van Houwelingen
   4th April 2016, 1:58

   i didn’t like the strategy of Toro Rosso at all. Why go on medium tyres after the second pitstop and after that mistake they pitted Max too late for his last stint on super softs. Max could have been fifth with a better strategy.
   1. 

      Erix
      4th April 2016, 5:04

      Every and each race we gonna love this exciting MaxX even more..
   2. 

      hahostolze (@hahostolze)
      4th April 2016, 6:58

      Think it’s because they didn’t bring enough of the right tires. Max said something about str being caught out in Bahrain because they had to make the choice so early and they chose wrong.
6. 

   Mike (@grippgoat)
   4th April 2016, 6:49

   So if Romain lost 11-12 seconds in the pits and a 13.x gap to Ricciardo at the flag… With solid pit stops he may have been able to fight for 4th.
7. 

   Charlie
   4th April 2016, 10:23

   It seemed obvious to me that three stop with as many super softs as possible would be the optimum. It’s the fastest tyre, and everyone was doing three stops anyway. Surprised no one else spotted it.
8. 

   lethalnz
   4th April 2016, 11:49

   correct Charlie, Haas already is making aggressive strategy that other teams wouldn’t even compentake,

   good on em its results like that which will wake others up.

   the tire rules are great to keep us interested in F1, it works fine for me.
9. 

   Richard Foy
   12th July 2016, 9:56

   I am trying to find out the time for each f1 circutes (from start of the pit lane to the end of the pit lane) and then try and work out the pit-crew stop time (example: 2.09sec). could you please let me know, I’ve been trying for months looking on the internet to find them without any success.
   Please reply. Many many thanks.
   Richard

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