2017 Bahrain Grand Prix tyre strategies and pit stops

10 comments on “2017 Bahrain Grand Prix tyre strategies and pit stops”

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   Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
   16th April 2017, 21:21

   Are we going to have another year of Williams dominating the pit stop times? That will be nice to see. It would be good if we could also see the actual pit stop time too though. I have a feeling that that used to be the case. Have they stopped providing this information?
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      HK (@me4me)
      16th April 2017, 22:51

      @thegianthogweed, Actually Force India did the best stops, not Williams. Consistency is more important than best time for a single pit stop.
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         Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
         16th April 2017, 23:04

         I was only talking about the actual pit stop times. And last year, Williams were easily the best team at this. They were very consistent too.
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            hahostolze (@hahostolze)
            17th April 2017, 9:14

            But @me4me is right. If you look, Force India have all their four stops in the top seven fastest stops, whereas one Williams stop is 22nd and one tenth. To me, that makes Force India the better pit crew (at this race), even if the fastest stop was Williams.
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   F1 in Figures (@f1infigures)
   16th April 2017, 21:53

   Why did Hamilton run such a long second stint? It seems to me that two 22-lap stints should have been faster in theory.
   I also cannot really explain why they put Bottas on supersofts at the first stop after his dreadful first stint.
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      Mike Dee (@mike-dee)
      16th April 2017, 22:14

      @f1infigures Exactly, I was certain they would put Hamilton on a supersoft after waiting so long.
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         Sundar Srinivas Harish
         17th April 2017, 3:31

         It was a splitting strategy. Merc didn’t seem to realize that the soft was doing better until they saw the dreadful second stint that Bottas had.
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         Ru Chern (@)
         17th April 2017, 11:13

         I think the Mercedes are too harsh on the Super Softs, this Lewis was pitted for Softs instead.
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   George (@george)
   16th April 2017, 23:22

   They might have been waiting to clear some traffic, I can’t remember if he came out in front of someone (backmarkers) or not. In any case having more life in the tyres makes sense in case there’s a late safety car or something, seeing as it was unlikely he could catch Vettel.

   His middle stint was pretty good anyway, his times weren’t dropping off and I guess it allowed him to run at 100% in the last stint instead of having to run to a delta?
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      George (@george)
      16th April 2017, 23:23

      Oops, that was as a reply to @f1infigures above.

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