2020 Eifel Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres

7 comments on “2020 Eifel Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres”

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   Bulgarian (@bulgarian)
   11th October 2020, 22:31

   It was great to see Max going for a fastest lap in the final lap. Maybe Lewis was a bit cautious because of a big win No.91 just in front of him, but still well done to Max!
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   Adrian (@speckled10)
   12th October 2020, 3:00

   Soooo tight between Perez and DR on that final stint post safety car – racing on absolute limit from both drivers amazing stuff well done to DR for holding his nerve and SP for the challenge.
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   sumedh
   12th October 2020, 4:48

   Don’t understand Ferrari’s strategy for Leclerc in races where he qualifies well. They did the same in Tuscan GP and here as well. Early pit stop as soon as he comes under pressure from the Renaults, Mclarens and Racing Points. Loses them an opportunity to pit under a future SC or VSC (which Masi is more than happy to put in at the slightest of incidents) and its not as if Leclerc is significantly faster on the newer sets as post his pit-stop, he is usually at the back end of a train of Ferrari powered customer cars compromising his pace.

   They should let Leclerc continue on his first set longer i feel.
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      marcel
      12th October 2020, 9:11

      Exactly! And you don’t have to be a strategy engineer to see this. Also because of his early stops he runs out of tyres sooner than the others, making him vulnerable at the end as well.

      They keep trying to do an undercut of preventing to get undercut, but it doesn’t make any sense if you end up in traffic with a car that lacks top speed.
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   Jockey Ewing
   15th October 2020, 16:37

   I agree as well. They could let Leclerc at least to try to lead the train and keep the others driving in dirty air if he qualified well. I think as Ferrari is the slower car they should apply this “destructive” strat instead of defenfing against an undercut. Ok driving in clear air or completely unchallenged is the best for average speed, but they are slower, so they are likely to be beaten by some of their potent followers anyway, why not make them pay for it? Leclerc is one of the biggest promises of today’s F1, could not he defend? :) I think he would do well.
   I have seen so many Ferrari blunders like the one when Massa towed away the fuel pipe, and many of their stategic decisions seemed a bit too shy, or a bit too brave. Poor Barrichello and Massa had a remarkably good amount of these. I think trying to make up with extreme plays and strats (quite often) is for weaker (than Ferrari) competitors in sports generally. Everyone has to come up with surprises to be “balanced” and to avoid being too exploitable because of too much predictability (game theory-wise), but I not really seen the healthy balance as a backbone at them after the Schumacher-Brawn-Todt era too often. Likely there is too much politics involved, and maybe the top leaders of them are just too powerful compared to the lower tier ones, so the responsibility is not so well distributed, therefore less whole hearted and pure decisions were born and allowed to be carried out. I think game theory-wise even notoriusly sticking to a computed optimum for a long while can be suprising, and based on that pulling some really extreme strat will be suprising as well. (So there is no need being extreme too often, one can be balanced in many ways, especially if backed by sufficient power, which I think Ferrari had even in the post Scumacher era).
   So I had a really good laughter when I had seen Verstappen and Norris coining the “Ferrari-strat” expression at one of their simracing footages.
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      Jockey Ewing
      15th October 2020, 16:38

      I intended it as a reply to Sumedh’s post.
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      Jockey Ewing
      15th October 2020, 17:07

      On the other hand I think Leclerc’s results are nice at his season, and beating Vettel twice/two seasons, with a strong points margin this year, and quite easily despite of some reliability problems with his car prev year shows that Leclerc has a high potential, it’s hard to predict his theoretical peak imo. I think he is amongst the rare examples at modern F1 who were called up to a top team as rookie or spohomore, and he lived with it well enough. He not seems to be more error prone than Verstappen in his first 3-4 seasons, and it’s just the 3rd season of Leclerc. I hope Norris and Russell will join them in the battle soon, and Hamilton fights them for a while and that will be a nice F1. (And I still omitted some great and favourite drivers of mine :) … these drivers are much better than the set of rules and the attitude of leaders.

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